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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1877-12-11 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

SCIPI IMMO.' to the Coroner.)—Witr nese continued, that flout Mr. Hoskin. reading his letter, he expected the lieutenant had COlilinitte.l suicide. Shiuli imagine this was one tif the letters written on the prey i.,114 night. In answer to the Coroner, who asked him whether he could look back, and remember anything strang.• abut the lieutenant, wane., raid deceased was 4 man .if try peculiar temper, anti during the summer, when there was a gm,4i deal of rail drill and other drill anionert ti,1...) s he at tinter appeared lost, and at other taner ex, It,si without eAuse. So much so that Commander Kinsli ot, who was then commander of the ship, remarked to uI t• ne,s—” I can't understand his manner," and remarked also that he wan a µsootier person. Wane,iu often had to argue carefully with him, to provost service ditheulttes while him datiCA were going on. Toe Coroner: Looking back at the past, do you think he did this ins state of temporary insisaity t , Witness :My opinion LI that he did this in a state of ! temporary insanity. The Coroner : What you call suicidal monomania? Itliwkett By the Coroner Lent. Hoskins has also spoken to me about him. By Mr. T. : He was an abstainer, altogether, I believe. By Mr. Kendall : There war nothing unusual on the previous °Milli:, except that he was more t'ilkative than urns!. That was the reason witness dui nut go to bed an • hour preVioll.iy. By the Foreman : Among hir papers were found a pre! scription for restlessnesa of the twain ! By Mr. Arden: I know of nothing in the way of debt that would have driven him to suicide. He was quite rouifortable with his brother officers and on board ship. ' Ile would walk up and down in a ttepliar manner • he • .  in the West or and w 00... their agricultural friends, and that Weymouth people would be large consumers. (Applauae.) Mr. WALLIS (Southampton) also responded. Mr. WELSKIRD proposed "The Magistrates' Clerk." (Applause.) Mr. C. F. ARDEN responded. Mr. T. It. °fume gat e "The Prosperity of Weymouth." and called on Mr. Rowe and Mr. John Brunton to respond. Mr. HOWE did so briefly, and Mr. JOHN BAUNTON at length. Mr.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-10-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

TAUNTON.—On Saturday, Mr. W. W. Munckton, coroner, held an inquest on a man, named George Western, aged 62, who had on the previous day committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond in the park attached to Willett House, the residence of Mr. J. Blomu3art, near Taunton. It appeared from the evidence that he had been an old and faithful servant of the late General Blommart, who left him a weekly pension for his services, and the present proprietor, his son, in addition to the  pension, allowed him to live free in a cottage on tile estate. Of late the deceased has boon afflicted with a spasmodic affection of the muscles, and on occa. sions of this complaint, ho was observed to shout and act in a rather deranged way. The body WAS discovered by one of the keepers in consequence of finding a man's hat on the bank, and a walking stick driven through it. The jury returned a verdiot of " Found drowned."  Oem Devonakind"Sn'B omeGrselnStaBl:l°litioL—dsOn FrmetaidtaCyo rolwst conilhvb" park-gate, under the mastership of Mr. M. F. Biseett of Bialiop's Lydierd, accompanied by a large ninabe; of gentlemen who are fond of this true English sport. Repeated attempts were made to find a barren hind but without success; and the worthy master of to,, cdaspoll deer, which oedwbaephr.iaitonerhtgibv;peliskid:t. opet tap! neuaotysicf.diointr da,bpfo; int2r,t, after :3: 00. 0:: eab,kt tuhp ono o'clock penocraccrale °nit: to Bicknoller, near to Weacombe ; then bounding in over St. Andries Park, crossed the archway on the Putsham-road, and came down within twenty yards In front of the residence of Sir Alexander Acland Howl, Bart., M.P., just as her ladyship (Lady Hood) and a party of friends were getting into • carriage for a ride. The deer then cleared the iron fencing, and in one place leaped a distanoe of twenty-one feet, the dogs awl sportsmen being close after her, She then made for a small copse, near Court Farm, but before arriving there was surrounded by the pack, and fell into a deep ditch, severely injuring her leg, so that she could not afterwards stand, and was obliged to be killed, mach to the regret of the master of the hounds. Eir Alexander A. Hood, Bart., with his accustomed liberality, invited the whole of the company (nearly one hundred) to partake of a luncheon, which, after such a good hour's sport, they readily accepted.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-10-28 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE FORTHCOMING TOWN COUNCIL ELECTION.— At the present time there does not appear to he any likelihood of any now candidates coming forward to contest for the municipal honours of this borough, and there is every probability that the four retiring councillors, Messrs. John Cox, 'William Botkaham, Joseph Penny, and William Marden, will be allowed to take office without any opposition.  Sulemx. —On Tuesday a labouring man, named Charles Gear, of East Coker, committed suicide by hanging himself to the stair door of his own house, whilst his wife was gone to Mr. Taylor's factory with some work which she had done. She was absent only about half-an-hour, but on her return found her husband sukended by a small cord to the staircase, and quite dead. Doctor Parsons was quickly in attendance, but the vital spark had fled. The deceased was about 60 years of ago, and had been rather depressed in spirits for some time past. On Thursday an inquest was held at the Schoolroom, East Coker, before the deputy-corouer, S. Craddock, Esq., when the following evidence was adduced :—John Read, baker, said that on Tuesday he went to the next house to where the deceased was living with bread, when he heard a woman say that the deceased had hung himself in the stairs. Witness went to the deceased's house, and found him hanging by a piece of small cord to a nail in the stairs. Ho held the body up whilst it was cut down, but life was quite extinct—Mary Jane Randall said that the deceased worked with her on Monday in Mr. Taylor's factory, and was with her until eight o'clock at night. After he had burned out all his candle he said he should shut out. The next morning, when witness went to the deceased's house for the key of the room in which they worked, his wife said he was very ill, and about eleven o'clock in the morning witness was sent for by the wife as she said her husband had hung himself in the stairs, and when she went she found it was so. She had known the deceased for many years, but noticed that he seemed in very depressed spirits. She saw him put some string into his pocket, and it was the same as that who he hung himself with. He had attempted to drown himself in a mill pond about eight years ago. The jury returned a verdict of" Temporary Insanity." POLICE, Tuesday.—Before T. Hoskins, Esq.—Six young MOO, named Edmund Bendall, George Tool, John Lye, Edward Prince, and Thomas and Eli Perry were summoned, charged with stealing apples, the property of Mr. Hebditeh, of Severals Farm. Mr. Jolliffe appeared for the defence. The defendants had entered the prosecutor's orchard on Sunday, and filled their pockets with apples; but Mr. Jolla() contended that the defendants had only been for a "stroll in the country," and probably some one had given them the fruit. The Bench, however, could not fall in with Mr. Jolliffe's view of the case, as tho defendants were clearly traced to have been in the orchard, and they were each fined 7s. Gd. and costs. —The fines were paid.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-10-14 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ABIE.  There are, in a private collection of paintings in Dresden, four paintings representing two gamblers. The devil introduces a pack of cards in the first ; in the second he is represented as encouraging them to play, always cheering the loser; in the third the last card was played, and the despair of the unfortunate gambler is deeicted ; in the fourth Mr. "Nicholas" is seen flying through the air, with a body under his arm, representing a suicide. Now these four pictures, although merely intended to pourtray the gambler's career, will represent the insanity of the Federal States ot America ; and President Lincoln, in playing his last card, has lost all he has staked upon a single card, and it is of no value—he has lost the game, and can never recover the loss. The abolition proclamation is intended simply to eke out by a servile war what cannot be effected by, a civil war. Truly and eloquently says the Times :—" It dues not I pretend to attack slavery as slavery. It launches this threat of a servile rebellion as a means of war against certain States, and accompanies it with a declaration of general protection to all other slavery. Where he has no power Mr. Lincoln will set the negroes free t where he retains power he will Consider them as slaves. 'Come to me,' he cries to the insurgent planters, 'and I will preserve your rights as slaveholders ; but set me still at defiance, and t will wrap myself in virtue and take the sword of freedom in my hand and, instead of aiding you to oppress, I will champion the rights of humanity. Here are whips for who are loyal; go forth and flog, and sell your black chattels as you please. Here are torches and knives for employment against you who are disloyal; I will press them into every black hand, and teach their use.' Little Delaware, with her 2,000 slaves, shall be protected in her royal tryanny. Maryland, with her 90,000 slaves, shall 'freely accept or freely reject' any project for either gradual or immediate abolition; but if Mississippi and South Carolina, where the slaves rather outnumber the masters, do not repent, and receive from Mr. Lincoln a license to trade in human flesh that human flesh shall be adopted by Mr. Lincoln as the agent of his vengeance.' The President of the Northern States would thus throw a fireband into a powder magazine on the calculation that it will create a general explosion throughout the South!
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-10-14 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

LUNATIC.—On Wednesday, Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, deputy-coroner for East Middlesex, held an inquest at the Grove Hall Asylum, Bow, respecting the d.eatli of Mr, Benjamin Ward, aged 40, a lunatic gentleman, who having mode his escape from that asylum and been recaptured, committed suicide. According to the evidence of John Hill, an attendant, ayheceased had been All inmate of the gentleman's ward e time. He spoke quite rationally. On Thursd ev ning he made hie escape from the drawing-room sating himself through a narrow ventilating aperture in the window. He dropped down into the garden, and then went over the lofty wall which surrounded the building. He got clear off, though he was at once missed and an alarm raised. Next morning he was observed by a barber who was employed in the asylum passing along the Mile End Road and the barber, knowing him spoke tit him; apparenily dircont doting him A gdod deal, and then entered into conversation with him, and brought him back to the asylum. He was given into the charge of witness, who amused him the best way he could, and for that purpose took bun into the garden. He there said that after he had escaped over the wall he determined to throw his irsuers out of reckoning by walking to Woodford, w itch was abotit seven miles itt an opposite direction to London, and thus avoid the road they would be almost sure to suppose he had taken. When he got to Woodford lie took lodgings, where he spent the night. The next morning, howeVer, he Considered that if he could get into London he should be more likely to escape notice, and he accordingly set out early to enter it unobserved, and he ahould have succeeded perfectly only for the accident of Gilbert, the barber, spying him from his shop as he was passing one mm-ning. He said that he had set his heart on accomplishing his escape. Shortly after this conversation witness turned his back for a moment, and directly afterwards missed the deceased. Supposing he had again tried to escape witness had the grounds searched, but without avail. rpm the house being searched; however; lie ivail found hanging to the cornice of his bedetead by a hew rope, which he must hate bought while in Woodford. The body was warm, but life was quite extinct, and all remedies proved without avail. Dr. Alonzo Stocker, medical superintendent of the asylum, said that deceased had been led to make his escape by a vision that told him that his wife was deed. The coroner remarked that it ought to be rendered impossible for any lunatic to commit silicide in an asylum. Dr. Stocker said that if pretaittions of An extreme 'rind were carried out, the place would partake of such a prison-like aspect that the curative treatment of the patients would become impossible. There were one or two hundred patients in the establishinent who had been admitted as suicidal, but the cheerful. unrestraining system had such an influence on them that the prosent was only the setond instance of suicide that had been accomplished. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."  • ArrinfrrED
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-10-07 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A LUNATIC. —A fearful occurrence took place on Monday at &place called Sunday's Gate in the northern district of Drogheda, in Ireland. It appears that a man named Denis Deane, agardener, had been for some time past unsettled in his mind, and resided with his family, who considered that it was not necessary to put him under any restraint until a few days ago, when a person was eniploycd to attend him at his own house and watch his movements, in order to prevent him doing hams to himself or others. On Monday morning, however, Deane managed to elude the vigilance of his keeper, and slipped away from the house. In a short time, ho was missed, but it was after be had forced open the door of a neighbouring woman, named Bryne, who at the time was in her bed, and, it is stated, had jest been pronounced convalescent from an attack of illness. He seized some heavy instrument which he found in the house, with which lie struck the unfortunate woman repeated blows on the skull, and beat out her brains. He then proceeded to do violence to himself by inflicting wounds qn his own head, and having run into the street the alarm became general, and a large crowd of persona gathered. A number of men rushed on the lunatic, and captured him, when he was conveyed to his house. and bound him hand and foot with ropes. Dr. Ellis was soon on the spot, and having first visited the woman Bryne, pronounced that death was inevitable, as she was breathing her last. He next dressed the wounds on the head of Deane. A company of the police force was shortly after in attendance. Had Deane not been captured no promptly as he was, there is no knowing to what extent his outrages might have extended, for it appears that on his way to Mrs. Byrne's house he met an unoffending little girl, and struck her to the ground, inflicting a deep wound on the head. Deane was for come length of time gardener at the grounds attached to the School of the Christian Brothers, and lived on the premises. He was a man of good character, and is father of a family.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-06-17 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

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The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-05-06 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

LAMENTABLE SUICIDE OF A YOUNG MARRIED LADY. —On Wednesday forenoon information was forwarded to Mr. Humphrey, the Middlesex coroner, of the death by drowning, of Mrs. Clara Bateman, a recently married lady reeiding at No. 58, Shrubland Grove, Halaton, who committed suicide by throwing herself into the waters of the Regent's Canal at an early hour on Wednesday morning, under peculiarly distressing circumstances. It appears that the unfortunate lahy spent Tuesday evening at It party at a friends house in company with her husband, Mr. Henry W. Batman, managing clerk to a wealthy firm in the City. While there she appeared to be in low spirits, but little attention was paid to the circumstance, as it was attributed to weak health, and no idea was entertained that she meditated self-destruction. Upon proceeding home shortly after midnight, with her husband and a friend, she, apparently from • wish to be alone, separated herself from them, and after a little time quickened her pace and walked briskly down the Queen's Road, Daliton, at the bottom of which rune the Regent's Canal. Almost immediately afterwards Mt. Bateman and his friend were alarriiel to hear piercing screams, and upon rushing to the bank of the canal they were horrified to see the unhappy lady struggling in the middle of it. They immediately raised an alarm, but before assistance could be procured Mrs. Bateinan sank, and an hour elapsed before the body was recovered, when it was, of course, quite dead. Mr. Bateman, who was almost distracted at the sudden calamity, was totally unable to account for the rash act, as the unfortunate deceased had never given the least intik tion of a disposition to commit suicide. . . .  A fire more destructive than has occurred in the town daring the last forty years, broke out on Wed; needs, morning in Devizes, by which three houses, occupied by respectable tradesmen, have hism totally destroyed, and a fourth rendered uninhabitable. The origin of the fire was not known, and it appears that a considerable portion of the property destroyed is uncovered by insurance. The arrival of the Shannon from St. Thomas has confirmed the rumour of the great fire at King•ton, Jamaica, reported some time since. A large portion of the business part of the city hns been reduced to ashes, the loss being estimated at £200,000, only a email amount of which was insured. The fire seems to have been kindled by incendiary hands, for it is said that since its occurrence attempts have been discovered to fire the city on three different occasions. Trade is said to be mach depressed. Gardener, the murderer of the unfortunate girl Sarah Kirby, at Oulliill Farm, near Henly-in-Arden, has been committed to the Warwick assizes for trial. The inquest was held on the body ef the poet woman on the evening of Friday, and while the inquiry was proceeding4great excitement was manifested by the populace.
The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1858-04-06 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

STORY.—The Edinburgh correspondent of the Fifeshire Advertiser is responsible for the following story :—The scene is laid in a farmhouse not above 100 miles from Pennicuik, and was enacted only a short time ago. A servant girl hired herself in the said farmhouse to do the dairy work, dm, about the place, which she did for a short time, taking ears however, to leave open on several occasions letters addressed to herself, in which continued reference was made to an estate in the west of Scotland, accompanied with a castellated residence, and worth £5,000 • year. The bait took, and the son of the worthy farmer threw off his old love, said to be a fair dame in the kingdom, and was immediately on with the new ; questions were asked on both sides, and plausible answers returned. For example— " What caused you to become • dairymaid ?" " Oh, became I wished to be able to instruct the servants, on my estate." That was deemed satisfactory enough and our heroine was invited to the table in the diningroom, where she enjoyed the good things of this life, laughing in her sleeve at the nice trick she had played. Things progressed favourably. A match was proposed and mutually agreed upon. The gentleman ordered suits of clothing for several friends, and all went merry as a marriage bell. The castles built in the air were innumerable. The fine shooting was dilated upon, and arrangements made for a condescending visit to see the old folks at home during the season. The fair lady, when spoken to about the matter, referred to her agents in this city, and no suspicion existed in the minds of any but that all was right. At longth the banns were proclaimed, and the marriage all arranged for, but when the hour came there wag a bridegroom, but the bride had fled. Of course, it was thought that the lady had been detained by some unforeseen aooident, but as time went on there was no word of her entering even an appearance. Inquiry was then made at the "agent's." who said he certainly acted in that capacity, but it was to defend her in a case of petty larceny and some other misdemeanours. SHOCKING MURDERS AND _SUICIDE. AT