Widnes Examiner. — 1905-04-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SEVERE SENTENCE AT WIDNES. William Hughes, said to hail from St. Helens, was charged at Widnes on Thurday with obtaining moneY by false pretences. He had, it seemed, sold bulbs to three women, tolling thenithat their husbands bad ordered them. Prisoner said he had done it for an " honest " living, and what money ho had received he' had given his wife to maintaiu his home and eight. children. He was sent to prison for two months ou each charge (six months in 01.)  The confession made by Williarnson at Wood Greet* that he murdered a woman in Jamaica eleven years lig° proves to be a bogus one. It is suppozed that he waq under the impression that he would be sent to his °WI) country for trial, and so get a free passage home.  This column. of cycling gossip will appear every week from the present time till the end of the cycling season. It will be different from anything of the kind that has ever appeared in any paper outside the cycling press. In writing it I shall be assisted by some of the best writers on cycling subjects and by experts of many years' experience in cycling and journalistic matters. It will be illustrated—not simply with advertising cuts from catalogues, but with our own artists' sketches, as well as technical drawings to illustrate technical subjects. It will be full of features interesting attractive, and useful to those who ride bicycles and those who hope to do so. In this first letter only a general outline of the many interesting subjects to be dealt with can.be given, and if any readers want information on other points at any time, they have only to send a letter addressed to the Cycling Editor expressing their wishes, and they will receive attention. The Season's Prospects " Distinctly indicate that there will be in 1905 a greater increase in the popularity of cycling among the great masses of the people than we have ever yet seen. Recent reductions in price have had a highly stimulating effect in increasing the volume of business in bicycles. Cycle manufacturers as a rule are extremely busy, and in some instances the March trade is running into record figures as regards numbers of machines, though prices and profits are lower than ever before. Cycles are now within the reach of all, and Provided purchasers do not go too far in their demands for a low price, no one need hesitats  patronize the bicycles of good names and reputations which are now being offered at figures that would have been quite impossible a year or two back.  Thoroughly reliable bicycles for boys and girls at six guineas or even less are one of the features of the present season, and a few more shillings Will obtain for the adult rider a sound reliable machine complete with free wheel, two rim brakes, and the necessary detail improvements, which make the bicycle of to-day such a safe and .pleasurable means of locomotion.  Those who go to eight or ten gm__ may obtain a cycle equal or superior to the twelve and fifteen-guinea bicycles of two or three yea. 7 ago. Row have all these reductions in price come about? To some small extent owing to the expiry of tyre patents and the cheapening of tyres, but !argely owing to the increasing use of machinery ta the production of cycle parts, and this has become possible owing to the fact that recent changes in fashion have not altered the main features of the standard pattern of bicycle.  of .741 , • , a , _  BY