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The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1862-05-01 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BRIDPORT.—It is with feelings et dam repot we hare to record the =timely death by drowning of Mr. Alfred Gaadry (sae of W. E. Geadry, Req., of Bridport) which melancholy event took plass as Good Friday. Mr. Gawky, jos., was sloes with mother you gentleman, in • best is the Thaws Wires' Maidenhead and Richmond, and by some ours the best upset. His eempesies limed himself by evrinimiag, sad Mr. Gamey held on by soase bad beaming ellisamed, we swept off by the current before masMase amid be madered. Named was ose of the principal alerts in the °Moss of Mr. Mitchell, M.Ps for Drifted.  21tI8TOL—Awriestibil eireentat—Ois Wilawthr. night Joke /2= r.c....=zze. Tait' street. sad suicide, by eutilag ht throat with a reaor, state of delirium treeseos. Oa his beim tuba to Me lalireway it was firawd that die wowed was um* el • carious deeeriptiow. A *au Bum Is ire 8..-0. *bee young man, mused Jee felliMiasi MS. O VIOSS I,l•sp withhis *wile bed by ewe paeans took lire, sad be wee the beck He made au tiara, sod his sielere. who ass to his aseishisco, extinguished the lire, sad bedesmo mod le this lallissery. . A MILD OWNED TO • IPED: POP ISM Wedosediay afterwooa, before Oro Orogiib MU% Barrow arid Pook, & re.a weed !newish Shea, 46. Ooyod at the lifiketreet biariairgy, old •Plialetal. Newtosediesid Gardeas, was brewed up et the c Hones. charged with bridals, 014esistiog his mak • liMie bey, shout to. years el age, fry 'labials kilo to the bedpost. It appears that the by, I. judos. to his hither it meet be raid, is a see* osiesemegeelle welds. Spew time ago, rit• have bees teid, be ei••• We a sad riussilded Ammo to th..d d SOL big= dose he wadi bewegbt ham Abe elegieleggesier M. father, sad the Mier slides that tire bey bee bee there to gm 41DOIDIDElms ENd rebblifi his he sismiddoselde ads* awl iliat be is altogelbsr =WI wieirtenreme7obidirtYlit7 braLsbahrostesiered liedbly choirs draws rossign goat o.bolsi seem the boy pissed the shahs 'rem! ids west del ease am geld hie father tbst homes. re Tessley. She obeli ea ibellemr, ; sod be,* as rightrilie Meek, *Wm be "amoeba.* hen abed. 16 woe • golerr ego. weisibedielmosit lownlisehrettr. go.m.a..lailadiVA246 016 from the fiehtedey elgit 1111 the isseging but bread sad mast, while was I;Qii to bin Woe dew • day by his esethwe, irygi dewing the whole of that tine be had his diem eis. The ear ebeeieeekg the wad Mimed, lisiellbed yordjskik.fls uniirosati &Abed up lb*
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1862-03-06 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

FATIIII.— Jobs Gould. aged 37, was indicted at the Reeding Arises for the wilful warder of his daughter, Hannah Goold, at Windsor, on the 31)elt of Demmber last. The foals of the ease were detailed in evidence. The Prisoner, who ham been • bricklayer's labourer, lived with his wife and only child in • cottage at Clarence Clump, Chewer-lane, Windsor. He him been long known as a man of dissolute habits. On Monday, the 30th of December lad, theday of the murder. th e prisoner's wife went out, leaving her daughter, Hannah Gould, • fine girl, about eight years of age, in charge of a neighbour. About three o'clock in the afternoon the primmer returned to his home, evidently the woies for liquor. The deceased, and another girl named Clark were in the house at the time, engaged in lighting the int. The prisoner said to his daughter, " You're a naughty little girl, not to clean op the place." The child replied, " I eould not do it." The girt Clark left the house, and just as she got to the door she saw the prisoner take a razor from of the shelf. She then walked away, and two little boys, who bad also been in the house, accompanied her. In about half an hour ' afterwards the prisoner went into Mrs. Clark's house, and said, " Mrs. Clark, I want you." She left with Gould to go the bowie, and he did not utter a word to her on the way. When Mrs. Clark got into tbe house she sew • large quantity of blood on the floor. The child was lying at the bottom of the stairs on her knees, with her heed lying on the bottom steps, and her throat lint. A er7 cif murder was raieed, and Charles Coker, • labourer, living in one ef the adjoining cottages. ran out to see what was the matter. He saw the prisoner's child lying outside the door with her throat cut; and the prisoner having said that be did it, he (Coker) went in search of a policeman, who took him into custody. It was elicited, in cross-examining the witnesses, that the prisoner Reverel years ago received a severe wound in Ins head, end that on one oemsion lie attempted to nensmit suicide by hanging. The jury, after loins deliberation, returned • verdict of "Guilty." The teamed Judge passed ientenee of death upon the prisoner, who throuzbont the whole trial ezhibited en air of  ... Anether murder has been perpetrated in Ireland. A John Pit'Kernan was shot deed at his own door on the evening of the 25th ult., and so thoroughly have the parties engaged in the crime anoceediel in obliterating all tram, of themselves that. although several have been apprehended. they have all been direharged with one ezeeption, to whom some special suspicion is said to detach. The Outrage, it is said, was committed in conseqnence of AVlCernan having to) en some land from which others had been evicted. SuockiNG
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1878-03-15 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE BY A WOMAN. —An inquest was held in the Council Cream her tin %,Ve.iiietsday at Lemma, before Mr. G. B. Aldridge, coroner, arra a jury of which Mr T. White: was chosen foreman, on the body of M rrtha Ann Weeks, a widow, who keir a small shop in Market-sireet. au who committed suicid.• that nairuing. Toe first witness was deceased's daughter. Martha Ann Weeks, who said her moth a- sas 65 years el. age. SLIO was in the habit of sleeping with her mother; and they wen- to bed about quarter-p re 10 :clock list night. Dec.eas,rd got uri about seven o'clock that morning and went into the garret in her night-di-e -s. S or got up about eight o'clock, arid went downstairs, .i h..re she remained ab nit live tuitrutes. On returning upstairs she found her tu ttier had nil coin down froiu toe garret. She dressed herself and went t the garret where a rr- saw a night drerut hanging in CI corner. Peeling rearired she called Mrs. Grant, a treirthbour. Her mother seethel very depressed vesterda • but she had Le-er lies' d her ripe tic of coorinitting G-atit so I she -vast calted by the last wi tires ifpuut 20 ;unpin, past eight that morning, an found thi tatrealkd hanging rio ri brit in her garret. So saw h ma ~ "')813. i n- for a doci or, wh pronounced hci % She area , • e hail been low and desp inding Saw u'e r aft yester at ilak • t., noon and on her enquirtu er her he LIM -hrri said she- was very low and very .iull sad remarked how wicked she was. Deceased had had  two par &lyric seizures.— E twin Fleury Maud in„a saddler, nephew of the iast witness, spoke to accompanying his aunt tr the garret and assisting in cutting do wn tile ducea,ed fle heard deceased complain a few days a4c) now very bad business was, and that she could n d ger, ner money in. She seemed very low at titnes.—P.o R.reks, who accompanied the last two witnesses ta the garret, give corroborative evidence.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide by hanging whilst an a state of temporary insanity.'  I.,riii. rue ni iAistrates deci•te I to iivniis the case,. as they tuquglit there was .1 bona-ft 16 claim of right, which ousted their jurisdiction.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1884-01-04 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TEE DEATH OT A MAN AND WOMAN ON THE RAILWAY.  An inquest was hold at Long Dltton on Monday evening. touching the death of Rgbort and Elite Williams (nthere trim Samos), • man and woman, both about 50 year. of ege. whoa. lording f ound, shockingly mutilated, on tho London and Soutlo-Western Railway, shout 500 yard& from the Hampton-court Junction signal-box, on th• morning of the 26th ult. The bodim were i those of • man and womm who gained &living as hawkers or field Wormers, and who had bmn staying at a common lodging-house in Kingston for the last three months. and it wee stated that they were rialto cheerful whets they left there on Christmas Day morning, and. as they were. stmdy, induatrious people, there was no remon to enspect thatothey would commit suicide. It was given in evidence that the driver of the 536 train from Salisbury noticed pieces of deeh and of a shawl on his engine when he reached Vauxhall on the evening of Christuma Day, and that on the following writing the signalman stationed at &Ammon Court Junction, (leery M.orria, mid he saw the bodies lying on the line ae dearlbed, the woman being nearly eat to pieces. The dryer Mated that he felt no shook al the engme cot panting the spot, bet that one M the buffer. was "driven home," as if It game in mato* with the decoued. The eight was dark ant foggy, and 50... nothing of them. It wee stet ed that the demand wore last men going to Ganirttt In the afternoon. ..a, its this was known to ho • nom rut back t. their liclitinne which people sometimes need. thougn they hat no right to mom the line, the jury were ...Melted tnat the deceased were in the act of crowning Om line when the train caws upon them unerPect,dly and gat thorn down There beinl. however, ne direct evidence on thit poet, they returniM an open verdict of found dead on the railway.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1884-03-14 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

MYSTERIOUS MURDER. A discovery was made on Sind+, afternoon in the fevirofeolie which indicates that what waa pee/bible • shocking murder has been committed dnrlog the previous unit. and that Bost lo Cresceot ties been the ammo o! Another Untie mystery. It itypears that a 1....0r omno named Annie Yeata has for some time m -aphid • back coon., the Int floor at N. 12, Berion ("raiment She went out.. mos] on Mined ay night with another aiona•n mann' 1211 s, who reeides at the p.m. add... he ted trom her in the streets at one o'clock on Bandar In 'runt& Inictoi wee hewed t 3 return to the house shortly After 2 a.m„ and it hi supposed that she ww• socompmied by • men; but, so tar n 055 at present known, no one saw he- ens, B•tween two and three o clock other cootwanti of the home heard • noise lo her rmra. as if she was In a bretmlosi fit. hot ito action wa• taken of the matter, and nothing wee seen of the young woolen uteil a quarter to one Is the afterpoon_. When the co.rson Dd. Went to the room to sneak to Teat., nod found the door partly op.. She entered and found • temp e•iil Mariam' tan Meet of Preirery. The latter had avid oily boort opened and oached, but ogierwim Vie room did tot appear to bays been much dlaturhe.t. Ellis looked tomarda the bed. hut amid only am her oomoanion.. I,3oMP...tending from I lierseath the bed clothes. She 'colored to lattor,,and than, to her horror, to cured the body of Yeats, with. towel tied tightly over her month and firmly (Waned behind the neck. There was a lerrilde gash on the left aide of the head abdve the tar, and the fade was eovered with Wed. =it rebid so alarm hail a seedieti moo  ..horuT arrived. and pronotimai& life extinct. and that death had been canoed by strangalstion. The polka were at once communicated with, and Insprocm Blackford immediately proceeded to maks an lover titro: old the that Lancl'ingthe room. There I. ring no .no doubt in bets snot .the'rll7l7dstlo the polioa that the woman hat been murdered. Tin, deceased area shoot 3 years of ace. and bed ocanaied her apartmente for two month. She to nookon of se being • Tory quiet person, and nothing enamel was noticed about her before she left her lolginga In company with herr:impassion. Annie Eq.. on Saturday evening. Tb. idea. therefore. that eke may haw, committed suicide is anneidered to tie out of the question. Tbe two women p.aapd ,ro,h,rhrty very early on Sonday morale.. and at that Sm. it Is stated Mat the disomeed wee the worse for drink. She was shortly afterwards seam talking to • 131141 in the Euston-road. bat she went horn no quietly. going direct to her room, that it is not at unseat known whether the man referred to or meows else at that time wen with her. The wound upon the damaged's head. it I. alleged. may have been Inflicted by is fall agaimt the chest of drewerr, or the bedstead.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1884-03-14 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

EVRAORDIPARY DISAPPEARANCE OF A FISHERMAN.  A noon extraordinary occurrence took pion here on Booby last, when • Arnerman named Tames Pearce disappeared in a moat unaccountable manner. Pearce, who of a somewhat eccentric character, and who is about 40 years of Age. resided with hie father, in Cheeil. He went to bed on Saturday night with his father. and got up, ot, it is stated, about 9 Am. on the following morning—a not unusual hour for thia extraoedieeiy individual to arise. When his father came downstairs ha now his POD had been out, bream of two oleos. of board that had been brought in He did not return, but this did not cause the older Pearce any nocusinem, knowing what an OCCeetrie character his eon woo, and therefore he said ambiag. However the day wore on with no nun ef bins, node nieht came on Pearce became anxious, and .et about making inquirke, when he ascertained that his son'e hat had been discovered on the Chesil Beach about eight o'clock between the Clove and Cove lon. Later in the day hie waistcoat wee picked up at the water's edge, about knit-a-mile weed of the railwey elation, and not far from the .pot where them.. found this they diffitlootly saw a body in the trough of the breaker., but were not able to &Anguish the feature.. it t. thought probable that thie we. the body of Peewee, both the father end brother having identified the clothe; end it is their opinion that the enfortnases man was taken with a fit winkle soalO&Ig on the beech, and rolled into the bay and wee &owed. Others, knowing hie pareliaritiee. are Malitted to the belief that he committed suicide by deliberately walking into the water, whilst other. conaider it very doubtful whether he hm been drowned at all. However, nottdag bee U... been baud et him.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1884-03-07 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

EXECUTION OP THE LIVERPOOL POISONERS.  Os Meer =orbs the too wore. Cletheart and Merret linegios, roe stetred roe Liverpoo& foe the roar el Three the heard et the ledoe pier = by bdi arable have, der Web earletkr *de goat. rd rower lime wawa Ver. yda arratalle• of their etwaree. Try re ter d the Hely lietermeet adarithaesil Or by R... rather liaste. lb. Rouse Oaths& ii•Phin, ,Whe a. Maids, sesedet vow sterieses oft rem r rely bur refaverierl with than aril rie.Alheehr /be mete admiral le rheum. the b. •• orreemr• borer the ank=ilQll re re Wares herr t lei they were Arret purred le Ile le the sear at repro Mir re ..,,,eiher ben • mire been the ware Warta el the Oasis •assm. wind Eh.. re steer err or hia star had primed edirlia' =or The rm. vulgeol to tie Pr far, end etianthely tho orgeter to the yearn kr the dyke. the rade herg arrei the reser I/ pritery.wee esarleir. dries rift the ElA.2o===allialti area mar S era raft heseverthihtlensre arm alms pia the ham. soiLthe rush MI with • tag et ever ire bet. Thor vow se =We. , art ei their rasa sitar the &ewer therd=ered Se bo irierreor Harm so the erribera 11114 terrea te Ali= the bedbug atrisel  At Conety Clare Arial.. on Tueeday, J. Cunningham sheriff's officer. was indict sd for attempted suicide. The prisoner diasharged • revolver, the bullet passing under the right jaw isp his throat and out at the left eye. The mouser:l • recovery We. marvellous, and what was remarkable Vraa that the prisoeer had a cataract which blinded the right eye for fifteen years, and when he lost the eight of the left eye by him own act be had the cataract removed by • surgloal operation, cud row sees sePh the right rte. The pay being unable to agree, the accused was discharged.  LCSS OF A STEAMER AND ALL HANDS, A Plymouth correspondent telegraph. that the construction of H.M.S. Imperlense -will be urionaly delayed by a merino divater. Her engines and boiler., valued at £40,000, were on their way from Mows. Mandeley, in the Mesmer Elephant, belonging to Messrs. Scott, of London. The vessel warn off the Downs on February 20th, and hag not been beard of arena No doubt is entertained that she must have foundered with all on board, probably after • collision. The nature of her cargo would render her particularly liable to go down U any accident occurred.
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1884-06-06 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE AND SLEEPLESSNESS. The circumstancee attending the death of the Dean of Bmgor—albeit they are infinitely distressing—present no novel features. The reverend gentlemen was a man of considerable intellectual " power," which is the same thing as uying that he was constitutionally liable to intervals of mental depression. All highly intellec ual men are exposed to this evil. A pendulum will &Tway, owing just as far in one direction so it does in the other. Great power of mind implies also great weakness under certain conditions. The mervel in not that great mind. occaeionelly bec erne damaged, but that they no often usu. derangement. Sluelee nees meet. not ....eh, unrest, bat starvation of the cerebrum. The brain cannot recuperate, or. in other Ivor Is, it cannot rest. Dussiolotinnily, recuperation and root an,, I e some thing. Sleep is simply physioloaical rest. The only route for regret in thee. case. Is that the blender should ever he committed of sunpuing that a st twitting drug which throw. the twain into • condition that mimic. and burlesques sleep can do goad. It is dec.ptlve to give narcotic. on a ense Of this type. The stupor simply 'nuke the danger. Better for let the inumnions patient exhaust himself I than stupefy him. Chloral, bromide, and tote rest of the poi... that produce • semblance of &up are en mut snares in such °twee. Sleeplessness is • malady of the moat formidable character, but it not to be treated by intoxicoting the organ upon whlch the strew, of the trouble fa It. Suicide, which runes at the very nnUnt old seance ment and is arr. to appear a mane net. ho tht logical hue of failure of not -Won that results from want of 'lop. Otis corium to not o hut • sleepless patient will set to work with all the ealmness and forethought of in. teldunt senioy to c mpass his death. He in not inaue In any t ef.nienl ^emu Flo ha. no delusion. He does not sot, or mann.o himself to act, tenter an influence." He simply events to die, and, nerhepe, not until after he ha. m die an attempt It kill himself will he rehib t any of the formulated symptoms Of mental disease.—Lanort.  200
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1884-12-24 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE MURDER REAR UXBRIDGE.  The trial of Elisabeth Gibbons for the murder of her husband at H. 1••, near Uxbridge. on November 15th. rep resumed at the Central Criminal Court on Friday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins. Mr. Poland end Mr. Montagu Williame again prosecuted t Mr. Gmin and Kr. lickell defended the prisoner. Mr. Polend proceeded to addrem the in for the iszeration,led ~con,orrintrting.nuptohne the fac.ert the. lyzi.fierar widen°. he pet f orward was precti ally aupontested: end it waa upon that that the Jury would hays to decide. Referring to the fondnes• oi Gibbon@ for the young girl who wiled him Uncle.. he pointed out that differenop had arisen between the prisoner and her huebend on that =Meet. Up to the day before his death Gibbons wee in his ordinary health end spirits. and had written • kindly letter Co the little girl stating hie intention of going to T 11.1.1,012. 1i... aiso shown that on his return he -t, the mew Pate of health. After mapper he had gone into the bedew.n end partially removed hie clothing. The prisoner wee there Pao. and then value little altercation arising between them about going to ime the little girl, fhb cheerful end hipPY men ww etsted bf We prisoner to have behaved like • madman' and to haw repeatedly shot himself with • revolver. If the man had done m the prisoner had stated. then it was one of the moot extraordinary end determined came of eniaide ever know.. While the men was weltering in him blood on the door, it wise neoessery the prisoner ehould at once 5•12.....• sterna. To her friend. 1f,.. Bowman, who came the had made no statement, but selamonently to the table and others had made a variety of elatemeet., which were of • widely different charecter, He asked the jump whether they *Pad believe thane different semen". s awl tweed that he would contend it was extremely japlimble that Gibbons woe the kind of man who weld MVO eMeenitted enfold... Beyond that it was Amen Gibbons wss • right-handed men who if he bad Aril hespeelf. would have taken the revolver 'in hie ABM Ws& If that were so, it wee &Potable clear that two effheureemde could have 1201 been inftented by the deformed He did not aontend thee the woman had wilfully missed the murder because Gibbons was spendMg meow oe the child and had devised plans for her bed that after an alternation with her hneberad he ISWItiM taken up the revolver and shot him reed that Shwa easing her eefety depended upon hie not living to tele the bile had heed other shote.—Mr. Grain then pidspeett ihaftry forth. del arms.—Kr. Justice Hawkine, I. anima... pointed out the improbebility of suicide, —Thefery OW/reboot half-en-honee deliberation returned with • Yeediel ef guilty. The Judge in peeking mental:me held out me hope of merey.—The prisoner was removed I, .fainting sandition. OVAR r4s ZXISTEZraI
The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1884-10-03 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DISAPPOINTMENT IN  -LOVE.  A ead instance of suicide through dieeppointment tie love hag occurred at Uppingbano, a young woman named A la Baleen having drowned herself in • pond. For about trwee weoks she bad boon very dull and low in spirit, She had been engaged to be married to a young man, who, alt ir a time, left Hploinhutsi. lie wrote to her for a while, and then broke off the engagement. When she was found is the pond ram had in her pocket a photograph of the young man, together with several low,ro written by him to her. At the Inquost held by Mr. Shield, the coroner, evhience was given to the ff rot that see had wished her sisters ;zooid-bye the night before she wan found drownad, though she said rretiring to them about having been dieappoiratoel in love. Chaffee E. Manton, apprenticed to Marrero. Sneath, Bros., grocer., of ITpoingham. said the deceaeod was In the employ of Me. S leash. Abut smooth ago she asked him if he knew a nice quiet pond where she could drown herself. He thought the was joking, The next everring she spoke la a similar train, suggesting R.kinglearn or Stamf rrd as it nice quiet plane where she would end her existeuce. Fla told her not to talk each ruidolah. A third night she spoke to him in the same way. Ho asked her about a week afterward. whether she had thought of it again, and she said "No, the feeling hoe goon off." She then t del him toot she had • aimilar feeling about three years ego, and she then started to go to a pond at Ayston to drown herself, but she met somebody and turned back. About a fortnight ago, when witness went out for • week's holiday, she said to him, "Wet, goodbye ; I shan't 600 vEI again, for I shan't be hera when you 0011se back." ft was elated tat the pond la Cl:l,llLiv yoon,; t.oaron o nod herself was about four feet deep, and that the body lay in about three feet of water. The jury returned a verdict a " Suicide while of uneeund mind."