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Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-09-02 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.  An inquest was held on Friday, before the Middlesex coroner, on the body of an artist, named Philip Hoyell, Lodging in the Hampstead-road. As he did not get up on Tuesday morning, his landlady went into his room and found he had not slept in his bed, but was in the front room wrth his face in cotton wool. She found a letter addressed to herself complaining of the depression of the picture trade, and saying that he was tired of c trrying pictures round to the shops without any result, and as he could not sell them he was determined to die before getting into debt. Dr. Willoughby D of Ampthillsquare, said he found the deceased on the floor with his face in cotton wool, which had evidently been saturated with chloroform. There were two bottles in the room, one partly filled with the latter drug, and one with cyanide of potassium, but the appearances showed the death was caused by the former. The jury returned a sordid that deceased died from suffocation from inhaling 140 ablonter% while in ea eneouigl etete et WWI  ACCORDING to the Observer, it is proposed to raise £1,50f for presentation to Mr. Newdegate, that being thi amount of expenses incurred by him in his legal proceed• ings against Mr. Bradlaugh. - - - •  - IT is officially announced that peeraires of the United Kingdom have been conferred on the Marquis of Tweed. dale, the Earl of Howth, Lord Reay, Sir Harcourt John. stone, Sir Henry Tufton, and Sir Dudley Majoribanks. The elevation of the last-named will cause a vacancy in the representation of Berwick.  - - . A LANIENTABLR boating accident occurred at Cork, .on Saturday. Mr. Atkins, a warehouseman, took his wife, two daughters, and nephew for a row on the river Lee ; and shortly afterwards the boat capsized, owing, it is believed, to some of the party changing seats. Mrs. Atkins was with considerable difficulty rescued, but the other four were drowned.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-07-29 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

FRAUDS ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.  At Exeter ASli2B, before Mr. Just'cs Manisty, Thomas Lidstone and William Roleston, b3th on bail, were charged with conspiring together to defraud the Great Western Railway Company. at Piymouth, on the 23:d of December last. This was a curious case illus.. ttating the facility with which railway companies may be defrauded. The prisoners both pleaded guilty t 3 the first count of the indictment, charging them with a conspiracy at c turnm law, the offence charged being as follows :—Roleston got into a train at Exeter and came to M. ttley without a ticket; shortly before the arrival of this train, Lidatone, being at Motley at 'Con, tcok two third-class tickets from Motley to North-road. Plymouth. On the arrival of the train at Motley, Lid. stone got into the carriage in wh,ch Roleston was travelling, and the two came to the North-road station, where they gave up the two tickets obtained by 14:11stone at Motley, thus cheating the company out of the third-class fare between Exeter and Motley. The deftnd ants, one being a brush manufacturer in a large say of husintsi. and the other an advertising agent, bore moat excellent characters. His. Lordship, in passing sentenv, drew attention to the fact that. had Roleston simply travelled from Nxeter to Motley without paying his fare, he would have been liable to a fin? of 40.. under the company's bye-laws, but Lidatone having conspired with him to defraud made the offtnce far more serious, especially as showing other people the eaae with which such fraudt might be accomplished. Taking into cons'd r Mon the excellent characters the defendants bore, and regarding the act as one done without due thought, his L3rdship imposed a fine of .C 5 upm each.  SAD CASE OF SUICIDE Friday an Inoue t he!ii at 13-tighten on the body RI young min naiuet Attouitirrow. who had been I dead on the beso afttr a visit t) a b maid with Ihs hid been keeping cJiupimy. Vic ra was no doubt deiasedhei poison id himself. and it is proved the roil g 1 idy in queition had on twe oceldOna t gosp'dious looking bottles frem him. It was also a that they were on mist affletionate temp, aid teed:tied, who had spoken to her shout a me family lei, hid left a letter asking that, for her sympattiy affection for him, she might be regstdsd bylihi ins as if she had attually bte me his wife. A It of s&eide whilst of unsound mina was returned A
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-11-25 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE. of pigs were destroyed. The family narrowly matter of puzzle to his relatives. It is not thought at all A distressing suicide has occurred at Taunton. with their lives. Subsequently a large rick of probable that any reply to the memorial will be received schoolboy between 12 and 13 years of age, namet. wionging to Mr. Patrick Carroll, of Shannon until the last moment; bat it is said that Sir William William Hayman, the son of a respectable tradesman, , was discovered to be on fire. The neigh. Harcourt has already arranged that inquiries shoutd be was on Sunday reprimanded by his parents for stealing quickly assembled, and succeeded in extinguish- made as to the mental condition of Lefroy. No further a few coppers, part of a sum of money which he had communications nave been received from tne condemned . flames before any serious damage nv was inflicted. collected from customers for his father. The following s, to a high wind which was blowleg at the time, man by either his solicitor or his relatives, day the lad was missing and could not be found, but va. Tae prisoner still continues writing to his friends. Mrs, yesterday morning it was discovered that he had corn, it narrowly escaped what threatened to be a C.*) ton had another letter from him on Monday couched matted suicide, his body being found suspended by a ' " year, re conflAgration. No reason can be assigned in much limiter terms to those watch have already been rope from a beam in a stable connected with a public-house Titre to outrages. publisned. This following extract from a letter of Lefroy'es nearly opposite to where he resided. whom 1 irday an attempt was made to 1303700tt a hunt written whiist he was lying at Maidstone during the Lucas, near Castlebar. A large crawd course of the trial, gives a strange irusight into his mind at ,
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-11-25 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

POSED MURDER AND ATTEMPTED  SUICIDE IN WILTS.  A. child, about eight months old, not yet identifiedl having been discovered floating in the pond at White ' parish, in Wilts, an inquest on the body was held on Saturday afternoon.—Evidence as to the discovery of the body on Tuesday last having been given, Mr. R. A. Ross, a medical gentleman of the village, was called. He expressed the opiniod, from a post-mortem examination which he had made, that the child had been thrown into the water when alive. There was no mark of violence. He should say that the body had been in the water about a week.—Evidence was then called to show that a few days previous to the discovery a woman, with a child of six months, had passed through the village. The child had a red hood and dark socks, so that it was easily identified, and similar articles of dress were found with the dead body. The woman called at a wayside inn, and said that she was on her way to Southampton with the child, that she had walked from the neighbourhood of Bath, that her husband had deserted her, and that her children and she were going to him. A biscuit and some fat meat were given the child. and the woman, weary and footsore, resumed her journey. She was next seen in the vil'aze of Whiteparish itself, with a bundle and an umbrella, and a young man, who rode to the parish pond to give his pony some water, said that the woman was sitting on the bank, when she remarked, "Why the don't you keap in the middle of the road I' —7he jury returned a verdict of "Wslfl murder against some person or parsons unknown."—The county police have apprehended Ruth Beadle? of Westbury. Soon after her apprehension, while passing a pond, she jumped in, but was rescued, and now,lies in precarious state.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-12-09 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.  During a quarrel about the possession of a cottage on Tuesday niaht at Birch, near Hereford, between William and Joseph Morgan, father and son, the former, having been locked outside, burst in the door with an axe and attacked his son with a bill-hook, nearly severing his head in m his body. The' Father has beentapprehended, and the BoU boa 11t Utabail Wallairo ala Rivolizip §latua  A shocking triple murder and suicide is reported from Fulstone, near Shipley, Hud 'ersfield. On Tuesday morning Henry Battye, landlord of the Junction Inn, finding that his daughter, Hannah Moorhouse, aged 27, who had already had three il!egitimate children (aged ten, air, and two), appeared to be again pregnant, told her that he could not do with any more of her children adding "Thou must seek a fresh shop." He refused to allow her to keep a box which she said a deceased brother had elven her. On Tuesday afternoon Battve went to Huddersfield, and Mrs. Battye, Hannah Mom house, her three children (Ada, John, and Emma), and Henry Battye (her brother) had tea together. When Mr. Battye returned in the evening only Mrs. Battye was at home, but the absence of the others at first excited no surprise. Shortly afterwards, Henry Battye, aged eight, came in, and said, "Mother, our annah has gone into the dam with Ada and John.'' He added that Hannah want out of the house to the cowshed, and asked him to hold a candle while a la!, named Ecclesly, milked the cows. She then asked Henry to go with her over the field to the pond. She had the infant with her. When they came to the pond she said, "Ada and Emma have gone in there, and we are going. Thou cln go home and tall thy tether and mother, that they may know where we all are." On searching the dam, which is 10 feet deep, about 100 yards from the inn and 50 from the road, the bodies of the mother and eldest daughter, Ada, were found, and loaf-an-hour afterwards those of the two younger children. She had been seen in the road near the pond with her two eldest in her arms. She had laid out a quantity of linen, apparontly to serve as shrouds for all. The bodies await an inquest.  INOTHER CASE OF SUSPECTED POISONING,  A suspicious case is being investigoted by the Shilffield i)olice. Mr. Thomas Skinner, a gentleman of independent means, living, in Glover-road, Sheffield, became suddenly ill on Tuesday after taking dinner with his housekeeper. The latter also was affected with the same symptoms—those of poisoning —but subsequently recovered somewhat. Mr. Skinner, however, succumbed. Kate Dover, Ors housekeeper, was taken home, and is in a critics' state. Mr. Skinner, before dying, declared that he had been poisoned. The fowl eaten at dinner was bought from a poulterers, who, at the housekeeper's request, removed the neck and inside. The poulterer says he and his family ate these parts for dinner themselves, and sustained no ill effect, so that the fowl could scarcely have been the cause of death.
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-12-09 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

SHOCKING BRUTALITY.-At Sheflltld on Thursday, John Thorpe, file forger, was charged with having caused the death of his daughter, Ellen Thorpe. aged 13. While the girl was lying dangerously ill of consurninion the father beat her with a stick. and she died next •lay. At the inquest the jury found that death had been accelerated by the father's neglect and chastisement, awl he as severely censured. The Treasury has ordered a prose. MAW% WhoiPrlQ2e WM 1'01614104  "Boy, de you know what that can container' said a tramp to a lad who was hurrying along with a tin can full of beer. "Beer," responded the stripling', " Eeseily," continued the tramp, "and that bear contains glucose, cecculus indictee corn starch, rice meal, and raw gimpe iigar, all deadly polmens, and enough to kill any man." The lad set the can d twn and moved off a little from it, whereupon the tramp picked it up and wits raising it to pt eh e dadp rpbe adt his lip,, when the boy interrupted him to say :—" Ain't you hfraid of it, I" "Y. a ; it's dreadful to (lie this way. but I don't care to live," and draining it empty he handed the can back. " He'd a goner,' muttered the WRhoaßtuEaania._rroownoesocf a ladTHasEild walked k duomf fcND ; rators of the recent great diamond robbery at Hattengarden is believed to have been seen a few days ago in S digenstadst, a small town in Upper Hesse. A man who bad formerly been a navvy, and who was somewhat tipsy. showed there over twenty diamonds of rar partly cut and pertly uncut. He said he had found them as the diggings in Americ a. It was only on the following day that the Lendon diamond robbery became knewn there. The police at once went in search of the possessor of the diamonds, but all i fforts to find him proved fruitless; he had left for Mavence. AT/Shin= Surcitog.—Laura Lint, about twenty-ono years of age, was charged at the Garston Petty Sessions, on Thursday, with attempting to commit suicide. The prisoner on Sunday evening last had some difference with her sweetheart. This seemed to have preyed upon her mind, as on the following day she obtained access to her m Ister's surgery and procured some tropia, one of the strsngest poisons known, for which there is suppnsed to be no antidote. She took a grain of this and afterwards a dose of chloroform. She bec •me inaensibleeupon wliioh her fellow-servants communicated with her employ. r. He Pent for another doctor, and they administered an emetic and also applied the stomach pump. In about two hours she was brought into a state of conscieus• nese. It is suppered that the chloroform acted as an antidote to the other poi-on The uritioner was remanded. A
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-09-16 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

DOUBLE MURDER 4.• ATTEMPTED SUICIDE  IN LONDON.  A terrible crime was committed cn Tuesday at No. 20, Lancing-street, Easton-square, London. a street composed of tenements of the humbler classes. It appears that the house in queition is occupied by a printer named Emmett, a man aged about 40 years, who has resided there with his wife and four children ,for some time. Emmett, it would appear, had been suffering with an ulcerated leg, and has become somewhat depressed. His wife had occasion to go out shortly after nine, and on her return she was let into the house by her son, who up to that time had been playing in adjoining room with a pack of cards one of the lodgers in the house had also been engaged in her household dutiea. not buying noticed anything particular as having taken place. When Mrs. Emmett went into the back bedroom she found the bed saturated with blood, and the bodies of her two children, aged one and four respectively, lying in a large pool of blood, and on the floor was the insensible form of henohushand, who had a slight scar on the left side of the neck and a large contused wound on the forehead. The police were at once communicated with, and Emmett was removed to the University College Hospital. where he now remains. The doctor then proceeded to the scene of the tragedy at No. 20, Lancing-street, and he first examined the body of the elder child, a boy aged f ,nr years. This body had a pointed wound on either aide of the neck, exactly over the carotid vein. Death must have been instantaneous, and no one without some knowledge of anatomy would have inflicted such a wound. In the second case the body was that of a child aged one year, and tbiebody had but one wound, similar to the other, and inflicted with great force and accuracy. There is no doubt but that Emmett was out of his mind. He is described as a very inoffensive man, and, like his wife, much respected by the neighbours. The wound on his forehead is supposed to have been inflictediloyN hammer, which was found at the bedside, as well as the knife with whlohlthe children were stabbed.  TO
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-06-10 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

IRELAND.  Michael Ryan and Michael 'Holub, member* of the Menagh Land League, were arrested nnder the Coercion Ant on Monday morally. A body of 100 soldiers and pollee on Thursday pro. tected the sereloe of 60 processess for rent on the property of Oaptain Maxwell. at Tullamore. A pnbhoan, named Higgins, whiles house at let*añsk wan attacked on Sunday night, fired resell shot among the people, wounding( three, but none fatally. Mains has been arrested. There was great excitement at Gaiety on Wednes• day owing to a rumour that Lord Dunstandle's son had been shot detad that morning near his father's residence, and within 100 yards of the police-station. The rumour is not confirmed. _ _  _ An eviction was to have taken place on Thursday at Lensnadrann, 15 miles from Oork, on the property of Mrs. Long!&cid. Twenty police were told off the duty, but the Sheriff declined to carry out the eviction without a large force. At Lough Orreftny, near Woodford, county Galway, a land agent, who refused to sustain tenants in their demand for a recognition of Griffith's valuation as the basis for their rent i has been fired at frotn behind tb hedge, and most dangerously wounded. His assailant escaped. Ab ,et 100 police and two companies of the 37th Regiment left ICilkenny on Thursday for Clomanlern to make seizures for rent. Oars were requisitioned, even from private gentlemen, for the conveyance of the military and police. Nothvrithstanding the threatened fine of £2O, several car-owners placed their horses out of reach, and some of the military had consequently to mare& 15 miles. Mr. lUchard Mooire, J.P., Kfllsehee-hottee, Naas, committed suicide, on Thursday, by blowing ant his brains with a rifle. Death was instantaneous. The deceased had been in very depreesed spirits for some time past in ooneequenee, it is said, of MI inability to get in the Interest on his mortagen throoth the land agitation. tle was a populnr country gentleman. Some emergency men, who were on Wednes lay constructing a hut on the farm of Mr. Sinclair, an evicted Protestant tenant, at 13anshs, were attfteksd by a body of people and put to flight. When they had been driven off, the mob returned and burned the timber of the hut, after which they threw the ironwork into the riven &me arrests have been made. orders were received at Mohill on rriday for a party of the 80th Regiment to proceed te Balllnateore in consequence of rioting. Mr. Gsrdner, resident magistrate, proceeded round the town to mate ears to convey the soldiers. A car beloagtag to Mr. Reynolds, president of the local Land League, was starting for BaLlinamore, when it was stopped anc tarried back by the police. The driver lashed the horse to a gallop, and the car was overturned, throwing a policeman into a ditch.  end
Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-12-23 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTED MU.RDER AND SUICIDE.  Just before midnight on Saturday, a young man, named Charles Henry Wilson, aged nineteen, attempted to murder his sweetheart, Mary Jane'Firth, in a house In B-nok-street, Leicester. Wilson, it seems, returned that night from Nottingham. and called at the house of a man named Hubbard, in Brook-street. where he met his sweetheart Firth. The girl declined to go with Wilson or to have him any more for a sweetheart, alleging that be was lazy, and would not work, and was no good. Mrs. Hubbard left the house for a short time, and on her return she fonnd the young woman Firth crying, in explanation of which she said that Wilson had threatened her with a knife. Wilson then said. "Will you go home with me?" to which Firth replied "No, not while you have got that knife." He denied having a knife, and Mrs. Hubbard informed him that she would not have him in her house If he behaved like that. Just then Mrs. Hubbard's husband came how, and he had no sooner passed Into the backyard than Wilson drew a very large butcher's knife and attacked the girl Filth: In a moment the big knife was plunged deep into her neck. and two terrible stsbs, four inches in length and very doer, were given en her shoulders. The girl and Mrs Hubbard screamed, but the later had a babe in her arms and was powerless. Her husband rushed in, and Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard seized Wilson by the bands and a terrible struggle ensued. Wilson plunged the knife into the poor eirl's side and inflicted another severe wound on the back of her head, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard being unable to hold him, as he was a very powerful man. Hubbard and his wife, however, behaved very bravely, and, nothwith standing that they both had their fingers badly cut by the big knife, which had been made very sharp, they at last succeeded In bolding Wilson's hands while the girl Frith, streaming with blood, ran into the street. Assistance was soon rendered her, and she was taken to the infirmary. It was then found that five very dangerous wounds had been inflicted, all of them bleeding very profusely. As soon as the young woman esoined, Hubbard got the big butcher's knife nut of Wilson's hand. and then ran for milletsince. No sooner had this been done than Wilson seized a table knife which was lying on a loaf of bread, and commenced an attack on his own throat. He inflicted a terrible wound, and was hacking away at his throat when he fell on the floor. He was seized. and owing to the lose of blood wee easily overpowered and the knife Wren out of his hand. A doctor was called, but the man was in such a critical condition that he was at once removed to the infirmary. The affair has caused great excitement in the town. The young woman bears a very good character. but the man is said to be an idle. worthless fellow. It is however, very doubtful if Wilson will recover.