The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

could not walk, he might stop in the house—that there
was the house for him. I told Dr. Greatrex they said he
might go into the house. I sent the medical order down
to Dr. Greatrex by my little boy at six o'clock. He sent
word he could not come, as he had been his rounds, but
that I must come down to him. I went at eight o'clock,
and the doctor gave 'Ole two pills and told me to apply a
mustard poultice. He did not give me mustard to make
the poultice ; I found that myself. I did not say any-
thing then to the doctor about relief. I applied the
mustard poultice. I bought the mustard, which cost a
halfpenny. The doctor called at two o'clock the follow-
ing day, and said he did not think he could do anything
for my husband, as his hands and his ears were going
quite black, but if I would go to his house he would give
me some pills for him. I told him then what distress we
were in, and he, said he would give nu

tram, if Mr. Tthtram had not bee
let me leave him, and my little 1

Tris
)uld no

note to Mr

did not take any message static.,,
not been, as I thought I would go myself the next morn•
ing. My husband took one of the pills at nine o'clock ;
and at eleven o'clock he died. Before he died he said it
was a hard thing to die for want in a Christian country.
I never saw the relieving officer at our house at all. I
never saw him until the Friil - " - husband's death,
I asked Mr.

y went f?r the pills. He
that Mr. Tristram had

when I saw him he

Tristram for a coma. , Is that man
dead ?" I said, " Yes." said to another
gentleman who was in the otit,_ " I offered him
the house; and no doubt if he had stopped in the house
he would have been a living man now." Mr. Tristram
said, " I went out of the office, and when I came to look
for your husband again, I could not find him, as he was
gone." My husband did not tell me how long he waited
at the house; but he said he had to stop twenty or thirty
times before he could get home. The first time I saw
Mr. Peers was on the Friday night after my husband's
death. I remember Mr. Peers calling at my house on
the Monday morning following. He asked me if I was
going before the board on the Tuesday, and I said "Yes."
He said he would do without my going, and would get
me 6s. a week. He said the,'

it the WorkhoUse
,nd he said
He ti

at Wal

widows, and he would get me 4s. 6d. from it.
call at the overseers' office for it. I think it was the
Thursday after, that I called for this 4s. 6d. I have not
seen Mr. Peers since I got the 4s. 6d. until to-day. It
was on the day I got the 4s. 6d. that Mr. Peers took my
statement down in writing. Before he took clown my
statement, he told me to tell nothing but the truth, for
it would be inquired into. The statement was read over
to me. Mr. Peers did not question me, but told me to
give the circumstances as they occurred.
After some quese;---

Mr. Dolling was

USTANT
f Mr. T

MISSION ER, he identified the handwriting
on the medical order.
Jane Parkes, wife of Hugh Parkes, of Bolto
Edge-hill, the deceased man's
firmatory testimony to that of Marg.—
me (she said) that when he applied, some pitied his case,
but one spoke to him rather rash. He said to me, " God
4..~"^trPn: what will become of -my-

[-street,

ister-in-law,
ret Parkes

ye con-
He told

I I wife and f