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Widnes Examiner. — 1888-12-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DESPERATE ASSAULT ON POLICEMEN. At the Warrington Borough Police Court on Monday Thomas Monition, hawker, Turner-et., Warrington, was put in the dock to answer charges of having been drunk and disorderly in Turner-st., on Sunday evening, and of having assaulted Policesergeant Bowen, constables Westhead, Millington, I and Taylor, and two civilians, named Thomas Critchley and Edward Noon. Prisoner, who seemed to treat the matter as a joke, pleaded guilty to all the charges. The case for the prosecution was stated by Sergeant Bowen, who said that on Sunday evening he was on duty at Town's-end, when a woman came and complained that her husband—the prisoner—was making a regular football of her. He had gone into a neighbour's house, and witness went in after him. Prisoner threatened the officer and took up the poker, btft it was wrenched from his grasp. He afterwards came out of the house, and witness put him into the entry which led to his own house. Prisoner thereupon invited the officer in, and threatened to murder him. The officer was turning away when the prisoner rushed after him and struck him a violent blow with a piece of iron. Witness parried the blow with hisistaff, but apiece of flesh was taken out of his hand. The two then closed, and fell on the ground, where the fight continued until the other presons assaulted came up to render assistance. On the way to the bridewell prisoner knocked right and left, and as he was being put in a cell he assaulted Constable Taylor. The Sergeant, at the conclusion of his evidence added that he was very sore from the treatment he had received.—prisoner: It's a pity you aiT not worse ; what about what you have done to me.—The Sergeant: If I had not had the presence of mind to ward the blow off it might have killed me.—Prisoner It should have killed you, and then you would have been done with.—The Mayor, in passing sentence said : As a warning to others who may be disposed to enjoy themselves in the same way at Christmas we will give you the heaviest punishment in our power. You will be committed to prison for six months with hard labour.— Prisoner: Thank you, sir. Why don't you give me another six for it?  _ At the same Court, a youth, named John Mannion, a hawker, of Warder-st., St. Helens, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in WinwiCk-st. on Saturday night; and having assaulted P.C. Corbett. Defendant was creating a disturbance, and on being taken into custody he struggled violently with the officer. The two wrestled together on the ground, and in the struggle the defendant bit the officer's thumb to the bone.—The Bench characterized the assault as a very savage one, and sentenced him to one month's Imprisonment with hard labour.—John Thos. Mulcrow, Buckley-st. vow also charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Winwick-st. on Saturday evening; and with assaulting P.C. Buckley.. Defendant was in company with Mannion, and when the ifficer apprehended Mannion, he attempted a rescue, and gave P.C. Buckley several violent kicks.—He also was sent to gaol for one month, with hard labour.
Widnes Examiner. — 1888-06-09 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DANGERO-US WALL NEAR BOLTOAJ—A BOY KILLED AND ANOTEITOR INJURED.— While three boys were playing close to a block of old and dilapidated cottages in Wincates-square, Westhoughton. near Bolton, on Saturday afternoon, part of one of the walls suddenly fell out:wants. and the mass of debris caught,and knocked down two of the lads, named Richard Foster and Jos. Brown, boil' residing in Wingates-square. It was soon afters,aards ascertained that.. Fester, who was about eight years nt age. had been killed instantly, his skull being ra, tilted, and he had sustained other. serious wounds %Ville Brown's head was crushed and he received a severe ..les-ral shock to the system. The third boy escaped. A over two Y/ATS ago a young man. named Jarnes rti:2.lty, also residing In Westhoughten, was killed by the fullim: of another portion of the same property,  TFTI MURDIM OF A CONtiTATILIC IN LONDON, On Saturday afternoon, Dr.l'ipleck opened an inquiry 15-the Wellesley Arms, Svslney-street, Chelsea, respecting the death of filleael Lewis, aged 47, who was said to have died Dorn the effects,of • injuries • received at the hdods .or Frederick Wood, whom he had arrested for hurtzlaxv.—Pollee-constahle Robert Peek spoke as to the desneraie conduct of the prisoner, and-said that Wood threw' Lewis down, The deceased bled freely from the nose and eyes at the station.—Br.'lLF_ Daniell, the police divisional surgeon, said that. a post-inartem examination reveated.that Lewis had a very severe contusion at the lower part of his body, in a dangerous part. The heart was also ruptured in two places, which was the cause of death The injuries were the result of a struggle or a kick.—The jury returned a verdict " Wilful murder" :iesinet the prisoner Frederick 'Wood, and he was committed on Cie capita) charge.—The constable Lewis was formerly in,the Irish Constabulary. Poe STUVriffiTl3 e PARLIAMHNTATIT Illsro RV. A tmlky Blue flook has just been issued ,which, th.ough !wotessing only to be an. index to a previously issued !hue Book giving a return -4 Members of the Parliaments of England from 1213 to 1702, contains also in an appendix inany names from writs of summons to old Parliaments whloch have .11,:therto baffled the search of historians, fleece documenls have been found among oldrecords from the Vower and the Bolls Chapel. To Edward 4.'s Parliainevt, summoned to meet at Y-irk in 1303,-three knights iirvear to have been summoned from each county. The immes of the knieits for Huntingdon and Kent are given. Thelater were Warisins de Valoins, Thomas te Insula, and 'Lucas de Porta. Returns for Edward IL'S and Edward rein tail of the summoning of annual Parliaments at that time. There is a summons to it Council of Merchants in 134 S ; and many other interesting details. The tiUss, aranger, sße,chivaler, are frequently met with, as in reference to the Parliament of 1427, when we ,are informed that "By inquisition before (be Justices of ASSi4T, •tialt.e4 27th 17,coruary, 1427-8, tog° Wylughby, ,irmiger, and Radulpims armiger, were denot duly elected. for the county of Nottingham." .
Widnes Examiner. — 1888-07-14 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DEAFNESS DURED.—A very interesting 132 page Illustrated Book on Deafness. Noises in the head. How they may be cured at your home. Post free 3d.—Addreas Dr. NICHOLSON, 21, Bedford Square, Loudon, W.C.—Adrt.  ThA Press Association understands that the Pdetsopao tan police are to be given instructions to pat down tic Saturday afternoon gatherings in Trafalgar-Kpaare.  The Social Democratic Fedesation have convened,. great demonstration against the sweating system, t• be held in Hyde Park, London, on Sunday, the 22nd inst.  Percy Jackson, son of a Bolton ironfonnder. died a Cheadle Asylum, on Monday, from injuries attributed las a football accident, which also deprived him of his reason.  A respectablv-dressed woman, who had been drinking during Monday, walked into the soa at Sandgate. in the evening, with her two children. The mother and eider child were rescued, hut a baby is missing.  The steamer Velinora, of Swansea, was returning to Ilfracombe with a large party of excursionists yesterday, when she ran into and sank a small smack. The crew escaped. A panic ensued among the passengers.  At Bow-street Police Court, on Saturday, Walter HayHugs, alias Benj. Brooks, private in the Grenadier Guards, was remanded, charred on his own confession with the murder in April, 1879, of a man unknown, whom he arid he threw into the Herrington Reservoir at Aston, Birmingham. Robert Yorston, shoemaker, died at his house, Victoriastreet., Kirkwall, on Sunday night, at the advanced age of 101 years and six months. He had been confined to his bed for some time. Only a few years ago he was working at his trade of shoemaking. He was a native of KirkvOall. _ _ _ _  Among the saloon passengers on board the Cunard steamer Aurania,which arrived at Queenstown on Sunday morning from New York, were the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, who were recently married in New York. The Duke and Duchess proceeded in the steamer for Liverpool, en route to Blenheim House. . .  On Monday, at Rochdale, Luke Kelley was charged with fighting in a field, on Saturday night, near Mitchelt Heyrnill. The fight was prearranged in Manchester, and it had gone on for a quarter of an hour in the presence of about 1,000 persons before the police arrived. Kelley and his opponent jumped into the road, but the former was captured. He was bound over to keep the peace. himself in £lO and two sureties in £5, with the alternative of 14 days' imprisonment A terrible death from hydrophobia was investigated by a Liverpool coroner's jury on Monday. A clerk named Branthwaite was administering some medicine to his collie dog on Jnne 3rd, when the dog bit his thumb. He had the wound cauterised, but on the 13th serious symptoms set in, and he went to the doctor, who ordered him to bed, as acute symptoms of hydrophobia set in. Ile suffered terribly from the most aggravated form of the disease, and died in convulsions. The dog was destroyed. A Mitrrarty
Widnes Examiner. — 1888-09-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ALLEGED ;CHILD MURDER AT HA YDOCK.  A REMARKABLE .TALE. A single woman named Hannah Harrison, who lives at Clipsley-row, Haydock, was on Tuesday morning brought before a county magistrate at Warrington, and charged with having, or the -Sunday previous, murdered her child, who was three years qf age, and was named George Albert Harrison, From a statement made by P.C. Brien, who is stationed at Haydock, it appears that on Sunday that officer, in consequence of a rumour that be heard, went to the house of the prisoner, who lives with her mother and stepfather. When he got there, he saw the dead body of a child of about three years of age on the sofa. , It was dressed and its clothes wore wet. He saw the I prisoner, and her clothes were also wet. He took her ' clown to the Police Station at about eleven o'clock at night ; she there made a statement to him which he (witness) took down in writing. She said she left her brother's house at Ashton at eight o'clock with her child, and walked by the boundary wall into Kenyon's-lanelane. Than she went down Kenyon's-lane till she got to the footpath, where she met two men. They asked her where she lived, and she said (pointing) "Down here." She asked the men where they lived, and they said at Bolton. They also asked her if she had any money, and she replied that she had not. She walked down the footpath in the direction of Queen Pit. The two men , followed closely behind her till she came to the stile near the Queen Pit Colliery. They came up to her there, when one of the men caught hogof the child and took it out of her arms, while the other seized hold of prisoner, both mother and child being thrown into the E Queen Pit dam. When the men caught hold of her she screamed out twice "Oh, my child; oh, my child." I Prisoner, in her statement, further said she grappled in the dam for her child, which was found, and she took it home in her arms. The prisoner was seen close to her own house about' eleven o7clock at night by a man named Harrison who took the child from her, but found it was dead. The officer said he asked the prisoner what time she was in the water, and she replied that it would be about a quartewast nine o'clock. She could not state how long she had been in the water, nor could she give any explanation where she was from a quarterpast nine till eleven o'clock.—Mr. Stubs: So you arrested her ?—P.O Brien: She was arrested last night. —Sergeant Bage, of Haydock, said the report of the alleged murder was sent to the Coroner on Monday night, and the inquest would be probably held on Wednesday.—Mr. Stubs: And you want a remand till Saturday 2—Sergeant Bage : Yes, sir.—When asked what she had to say why she should not be remanded, prisoner said "You are charging me with something I am not guilty of."—She was then remanded to the Newton Petty Sessions, which will be held on this (Saturday) morning.
Widnes Examiner. — 1888-06-30 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WEITZEICS COCOATINA. Guaranteed Pure Soluble Cocoa, Without Adn], _   molt, th 47 .ITUIa ot , mnd late  d Valuer.  . effect it will have upon millions of readers throughout, the United Kingdom. It will win them thousands of votes in the country, though it seems to have failed to affect a single vote in Parliament. It has gone to the hearts of Englishmen that Mr• JonN DILLori. has been sent to gaol for six months • for making such a speech as is made every night in this country; and it has not lessened the feeling dn. the matter to know that, to make sure that their victim should not have the benefit of trial by jury, County Louth was proclaimed after the aPeech was made. When Mr. BALFOUR is reelinded of this, he turns pertly round, and says it la all in accordance with the law of the land—as if the fact that such things can be dime in the name Of the law has not made the Crimes Act hateful 'B4A hideous in the eyes of his countrymen. Mr. ?LkusroNE might well say :—" These things are 'coown and felt. The Irish people are aware what 'are the horrors, what are the atrocities,. almost ineredible, that have been done in Ireland under the name of law—the tortures, the murders, the erimes of every description which when they have not been done under the name of law have been eovered by subsequent acts of indemnity." It is a reproach to a nation when "law is on one side and illsti3e on the other ; " this has often been the case in Ireland; it is so to-day; and it is because the People of this country have at last realised the fact, that they will not rest until this great wrong la Sighted. Public attention is centred just now ePon Mr. DILLON, but it is with a full knowledge !hat there are scores of other men of lesser note 'Prig in gaol for offences which are no offences before the higher law of the conscience. Nay, more than this, there is a knowledge from the results of courts 1)f. appeal that men have again and again been sent to prison by prejudiced resident magistrates when there Was not evidence to warrant conviction ender the very Coercion Act they were so brutally administering. Mr. BALFOUR seems to glory in these blunders and these crimes, and he talks of the success of the Act, because Irishmen, having faith in Mr. GLADSTONE, and hope of the future, bearing with exemplary fortitude the' ty„anny to which they are subjected. The IRISH ''itcRETARY had something to say of outrages in terry; but he had no answer to the statement at Kerry is the county above all others where he Plan of Campaign has not been started, and ever which the National League has least hold. ksto Mr. BALFOUR'S "success," Mr. W. O'BRIEN Waa in a position to slow that "the landlords had ,eot succeeded in a single instance against the 4.lan of Canipaign." The Crimes Act itself was Passed to put down the National League. "That" 4 - • - to quote Mr. O'
Widnes Examiner. — 1888-11-17 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

EXECOTION OF AN OLD MAN: A STEENING INCIDENT. —An old man, named Levi It,chard H,,,stt, ssas hssss Ii N.wgate, on Tuestay, for the murder of his wife at Poplar. The culprit was 66 '.,..r aua kspt small shop. He had be-n drinking heavily. and, because his wife refused to give him --osss, he beat her brains out with a It no r as she lay in bed. Be afterwards cut his throat, but recovered. The doomed man, who had slept Sou Nlly, prayed oarnestly with the cliapla;, . ay morning, and asked the sheriffs, when the,‘ visited h s cell, to give his 'eve to his relations. Havins been pini 'tied, the old mite walked to the scaffold without two,. A: shorter dron than usual was given, but he appeared to die instantly. The rope tore open the old wound in the throat, causing a sickening sensation among those whose duty required them to be present.  GIVEN GRATIS 10 ar.t..—The following important fact cannot be too frequently impressed upon the minds of suffering humanity, that M. Gould, 14.13. P., of Bradford, has for some time past, and is now, giving the Hop Prescription for Bitters to all applicants who send a stamp for postage. Anyone in possession of this valuable prescription can for 3.9c1 make a quart of this marvellous medicine, and for Is 8d can make two quarts, sufficient to serve two weeks. It may be interesting to learn that with this prescription all kinds of hopeless cases have been treated with success when all other remedies had absolutely failed. People who have been partly paralysed have been relieved or cured with this prescription, others have had their reason restored, others their sight; people who could not sleep have had their:sleep restored; others who could not eat had their appetite restored; people who had suffered for years with indigestion and its consequences have had their digestive powers restored; I people who have suffered martyrdom with a disordered liver, nervous debility, &c., have been cured; people subject to an accumulation of wind and water have found it disappear under Its influence. A gentleman at Lincoln, subject to fits fortnightly, has not had a fit from the first moment he began taking it. People troubled for years with constipation have had their bowels becoming regular under its influence. It is a 1 choice, rare, remarkable remedy. The prescription is sknple it is cheap, it is good. Those who haven't sent for it should. It will be found safe, sure, and reliable in almost all ailments incident to the human frame. It is a tonic, alterative, and aperient combined of marvellous curative properties. These Important facts seem incredible, but it has done far snore than is here claimed for it, proof of which is sent with each prescription. Thousands are blessing the day the Hop Compound for Bitters fell across their path, and it is given absolutely free of charge to all applicants, rich or poor, who send a stamp for postage of the same. The address is Mr. Gould, E.8.P., 179 ,Manchester-road, Bradford, rocks. When writing Kama this paper.—ildvt.
Widnes Examiner. — 1888-01-14 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TIIE NOTTS MURDER.-FOUR ARRESTS.  The greatest excitement prevailed on. Saturday in the little South Notts town of Binghafro, when it became known that four arrests lied been made in connection with a recent case of. child murder, the prisoners being in a good social position, and they are Samuel James Moore, 32. surgeon; Mrs. Jane Rayson, 66: Mary Jane Rayson, 20, all of • Bingham ; and Ada Eliza Sansom, 24, wife of William Wilson Sansom. draper's assistant, 30, Greyfriar-gate, 'Nottingham. The facts of the case were first made public at the inquest, which was held at. Bingham on the 27th and 28th ult., when a verdict was returned ot wilful murder against some persons unktrm Dr. Moore hakonly resided in the neighbourhood a corn' baratively short period, and at one time lodged with the Itaysons. After leaving their roof he continued to act as their mediclal adviser. Miss Rayson, who appears to have been in very delicate health for some time, was found to he ton ill to be removed, and she was therefore left at home in the nominal custody of a police constable. Mrs. Rayson and Dr. Moore, however, were conveyed to the police-station, where they were brought before Mr: Geo. Storer, and fern-tally remanded to Nottingham Prison for a period not exceeding eight days. On.Stiturday morning it came to light that a . fourth arrest had been made—viz., that of Mrs. Sansom, daughter of 'Mrs. Ray.son, who was arrested at Newark op Friday night. taken to Itinghath by the 8 40 express tram, and lodged at Bingham for the night. Her home is in Nottingham,but on Dec. 3, when her sister was taken ill awl Dr. Moore was sent for, ,Mrs: Sansom was visiting her mother for a few weeks. After jeavingethere she went on a visit to Newark, and VMS at that. borough when the inquest was held. She was called as a 'Witness at .the inquiry, at the conclusion of which she appears to have returned to Newark. She was taken to Nottingham on Saturday morning, and was brought before Mr. George Storer, at the County Hall, on the charge of murder.  On Thursday, at Bingham, Nottinghamshire, the charge of murdering a newly-born child 'brought against a lady, her two daughters, and a surgeon was gone into before the magistrates. The principal witness in the case was a servant girl, who described what she heard and saw in Mrs. Rayson's house on the supposed day of birth of the child. After a long investigation the magistrates dismissed the charge against Mrs. lfayson, Mrs. Sansom, and Di% Moore, and committed Miss Rayson for ' trial.  Blinusimus—whose professional labours necessitate long intervals between meals—nothing will be found so exhilarating, .earnforting. and capable of sustaining exhausted 'nature as Qtdbury's Cocoa, guaranteed absolutely 'ire. Beware of imitations.—Advt.  It is reported that an outbreak ,of typhoid fever in a Connemara village has carried off two clergymen and a Scripture reader, that two or three deaths are occuring daily, and that more than forty cases have been sent into hospital.
Widnes Examiner. — 1902-01-17 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MADGE.  CONTINUAL CURES IN LANCASIIIRE.—Every week fresh evidence is reported in the newspapers concerning the wonderful cure 3 effected in Lancashire by Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people. These pills have cured paralysis, locomotor ataxy, rheumatism, and sciatica ; also all diseases arising from impoverishment of the blood, scrofula, rickets, chronic erysipelas, consumption cf the bowels and lungs. actemia, pale and sallow complexion. general muscular v.eaknets, 1 Nis of appetite, palpitations, pains in the back, nervous headache and neurrigia, early dr cav, all forms of female weakness and hysteria. These pills are a tonic, not a purgative. They are genuine only with the full name, Dr Williams' pink pills for pale people, and are sold by chemists, and by Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, 46 Holbornviaduct, London, E.O ,at 2.. 9d. a box, or six boxes for 134. 9d. Pink pills sold 1)ose or from glass jars are not Dr. Williams' pink pills; accept them only in the pink closed wrappers se above described. On this page will be found details of a remarkable cure in Blackburn.  Parr's Bank, Limited.—Report of the Directors. The report and balance sheet of Parr's Bank, Limited, for the year ending 31st December last, has jnst been issued. The annual ordinary general meeting will be held on Thursday next at the Cannon-street Hotel, London —The Directors, in submitting to the shareholders the balance sheet of the bank certified by the auditors, report that the I position and prospects of the business continue to be in every way satisfactory. Including £97,517 17s 6d brought forward at 30th June, 1901, the net balance of profits, alter providing for all had and doubtful debts, end rebating the 'current bills at 5 per cent is .£261,577 Ss 10d. From this sum the directors recommend the payment of a half-year's dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, payable. free of income tax, on let February, £139,032 lOs ; a bonus of 1 per cent.' payable, free of income tax, on Ist February, £14,635; the transfer to Bank Premises Account, £10,000; total, £163,667 10A, leaving balance to be carried to next account, £97,009 ISs 10d The Directors record, with much regret,the decease of their esteemed colleague, Mr Emil Heinemann, who had been a member of the board since June, 1896. A branch of the bank haA been opened at Llandudno, and a sub-branch will shortly be opened: at West Kirby, Cheshire. The Directors who retire at this time by rotation are Air Edward Banbury, Mr Alfred Crewdscn, Sir J J Harwood, Mr Robert Neill, Mr James Tulloch, and Mr A M Turner, all of whom are eligible for re-election. The Auditors, Messrs Turquand, Youngs, Bishop and Clarke, London, Messrs Stead. Taylor and Stead, Liverpool, and Messrs Alfred Tongue and Co., Manchester,also retire, and offer themselves for re-election.  Complcity in 520 murders. and at least 1,000 hl2hvriy robberies, is cbaigrd against a brigand named Bibeanu, cebo bas been arrested in me of his haunts in One forest bordering cn tbe Danute.