Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1918-03-23 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

MORAL VOR THE PUBLIC. eleven years, owing to a very serious breakdown in health, and the Rev. H. Windross, There is a. moral for the public in the at the commencement of the woceedings, in l shocking, Maltby affair which formed the a few sympathetic words, voiced the feelings subject a a murder trial at the Assizes this of the audience in an appropriate reference week: • One of the defending counsel, Mr.lasjo the absence of Mr. Thompson. It may ' R. A. -Bateman, incidentally remarked that be said, however, that it is the members of the people who had come forward to give the. chorus who mostly appreciate the sterevidence could, by a word in the right guar- ling value of Mr. Thompson's services to the ter and. at the right time, have saved the society. In Mr. Thompson's, absence the life Of an -Unfortunate : child. Mr. Justice 1 Csterfield duties of conductor he is summing-up, were ably filled by ProRoche, in hmming-up, carried the point r° 'l'. 'l'. Morrison, of Spinkhill College, near . , a step further. One, of the witnesses, al The principals were Madame Amy Joyner, neighbour, testified that she spoke to the soprano, Barnsley; Miss Doris Cowen, constep-mother " abolit the health of the child,' tralto, , Sheffield; Mr. G. W. 'Riley, tenor, and was told that the child was all right-Leeds; and Mr. Ernest Platts, 'bass' Sheffield: I took her • word for it said this neigh_ in the unavoidable-absence-of Mr .L. Hinch• hour; "it' was her place ,'not mine." It was duties' of leader of the band devolvedl ."Sheffield, , on Mr. C. lawerort,•ot who the old story, said Mr. Justice Roche: ' Am liffe, the fulfilled: the appointment at very short I my brother's keeper? " It ought; thought the judge, to have been the'"place'' of this notice. Reasons of ihealtb also accounted for the absence of Mr. -Norman Camps, who for neighbour, and other neighbours, and of the the last thirteen years has filled the office of elder sisters of the ill-fated 'child, to have treasurer, while Mr. John Gregory, who had invoked some aid for this little one. And played at every concert since the formation yet we can understand the attitude of these of the Society, was for the same reason a neighbours. They saw that all was not well regretted absentee. Excellent arrangements with the child, and perhaPs they had heard were made by Mr. H. G. Gradwelr, the hon. secretary, whose energies on behalf of the ugly-rumours, but—well, it is as ticklish a Society ',Have contributed Very materially to thing to interfere between parents and child- its continued success, and he has had the ren as between man and wife. ,It is a tra--i..assistaince of the following officers: President, dition ,in , Yorkshire amounting almost to a Mr. T. C. Neu-ton, J.P.; vice presidents; religion • that one ,Should mind - one's own ,Messrs. J:.S. Ilagne, C. E. Barraclough, and business and leave everybody else to mind' F. Senior; organist, Mr. 11, Senior; librarian, theirs.. Yet it can, never be sufficiently Mr. W. Kay; committee, Miss Ashall, Miss Walker, Mrs. Cohn Smith, Miss Gibson, Mr. realized that the Welfare of children in all :W. W. ,Cornish .Mr W.- Kay : Mr circumstances and at all times is the Coneern.-01 ' • ' ~. ..,' it nsby, Mr. G. Dixon, Wikeley, of everybody, and that it -ought to be, prac. and Mr. A. W. Grant; auditors., •MeSsrs. j. tically impossible for anyone to visit a child N. Cumlx,rbirch and A. Grant. The 'Society with cruelty, oppression or neglect without is also indebted to Miss A. Dixon, the accom-. immediate detection- and exposure, An ill-' panist, and in fact all the officers and memtreated horse is Often more quickly and cer- bens have worked loyally together to uphold tainly avenged than an ill-treated child.' the prestige of -a 'musical society which is _. - __ _ _ ---rall admitted to h i  ave