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The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-01-16 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE OF AN EX-POSTMAN FORMERLY AT ACCRINGTON.  An army pensioner, named James EdwaAls, IN:1,0 was a postman at Accrington for many years, hut left about a year ago, committed suicide cn Monday, January Ch. in his native village. Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire. ' • •  Acoording to the evidence given at the inquest, Edward, who was 67 years of age. had been ill for tieelvo monthsand confined to find for tight weeks. Henry Edwards, a relative and an ormy pensioner, who had often sat up with the deceased, left him at 2-30 on the Monday morning in a restlees state. At 5-30 Mrs. Edwards, the wife, came to Henry Edwards' house and shouted "Jim is gone," moaning her husband. On seeing deceased in bed Edwards exclaimed, " Why his throat is cut," but Mrs. Edwards raid it was a lump in his throat which had burst the jugular vein. Dowan dead, and whilst laying out the body, Edwards found a blood-stained knife. Deceased's rigfht hand was outside the bed clothes, hut his left hand was down by his left side. The knife was blado uppermost, and the clothes were not disturbed.  From further evidence it appeared that Edwards gotiout of bed, took a knife from a ‘-cupboard in the room and out his throat, although the wife Paid rho did not think that her husband could have got out of beck as lie was in such a feeble condb t  A verdict. of Suicide while temporarily insane" was returned.  LINSEED COMPOUND' (Aniseed, Senega, Cements for mending all things.  The Loral Government Board ;Java informed the Ethyl Council that, upon the midorstunding that. the Council do not again spend money on an ad. drcsa to General Booth. they will not enforce th,,, auditoeu surcharge of £2 2s. for the address.  DR. DE ROOS'COMPOUND RENAL PlLLShave over fifty years repute t lon as the most safe and speedy remedy for Pains in the Back, Gravel, Lumbago, Uout, Rheumatism, Weakness across the Loine, Sandy or other deposits. Stone Stricture, and Cis...of Kidney* and Urinary Organs generally. Price 18.10. and 2s. 9d. of et lnelpal Chemists or post free from The Dr. De Roos' Medicine Co.. Kentish Town, Londe" lenthne peekaboo bear the Government stair /i 55 .vc.o.O.S",V,;
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-10-23 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SINGLE ROSES.  I remember this time—and not so very long ago —when single blossoms of all kinds were spoken of aimlogetically. as if they were of an inferior order. Some Chrysanthemum societies which I know refused to recognise them for a time, and when they did condescend to include them in their schedules the prizes offered were meagre in the extreme. I well remember admiring at on of the shows some baskets of very beautiful singles. and called the attention of one or two growers to th,M. Tinic is what they said. and it struck at the time that their idea of beauty was mound in the one word " big." " Yes: they're nice, btal. you see, they're single." I think possibly something of the same feeling exists in some quarters in regard to the charming single roses. but I hope I may be wrong in my surmise. and that it is only because the singles aim not sufficiently known.  write not only in their praise and as a grower of some of them—and would have niore. if room per mitted—but to remind readerA of the fact that floss. during the time of planting, it would be advan. tageous if they tried one or two sorts.—" Leo. burst." in "Gardening Illustrated."  "No shell. no sleep. E/even weeks now since I slept at night. Dear Fred. forgive me, but I cannot stand itt any longer," wrote Harriet E. Jones, of Ingestre-building, Soho, London. b.. fore committing suicide by hanging.  A committee of the Newark Town Council in cited Alderman W. E. Knight, a prominent LH, oral, to accept the mayoralty, but as he desired to engage in political work if elected the commit tee transferred their choice to Dr. Appleby.  'Dhe Puraietca'a Cure foe Gout, Rheumatic Gout acid Gravel.  Safeet and most lentle Medicine toe Infante, Children, Delicate Females, and the Sickness of Pregnancy.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-10-23 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

DAY. "Vie  Rush-lighg. are :till us.ll in some of the Immos of St. Harmon's. a Radnorshire ininth. A four year old boy named Rowland Smith, the son of a Iwseds postman, was knocked down and killed on Wednesday by a motor car.  Three uould-be suicides urn, bound ov, at the Salford Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, and in a fourth ea,. th, Grand Jury cut the bill.  This Legislative Assemblies of Natal and of the .Orange River Colony on Tuesday adopted resolutions expressing the deepest regret at the dessth of Mr. flufineyr.  Inquiries have been made of the Mayor of Deal by th, Admiralty as to the accommodation as ail. able ashore for officers and 111011 of the Home Fleet at an early date. It is announced thwt Mr. J. C. Isaac has been appointed chief accountant of the London and North-M.4..4,n Railway Company in ph!ce of the at. Mr. J. Parkhouse.  For assisting the police two Coupon wonien, Mr:. Pearson and Miss Scott, were at Blyth on Tuesday presented, the former with a watch and the latter with a star-shaped ornament.  It is proposed by the Port Sanitary Committee of tho Liverpool City Council that an assistant to ,he medical officer be appointed solely to deal with and watch consumptive cases in the city. A lina bunch of t roses grown in the open ha, lust been gathered at Loftus (North York. shire), anti on Wednesday ripe strawberries were discovered in a garden near Stockton-on-Tees. ! Cut into two by a steamer in the Bristol Channel, a smack in-tantly sank, and the captain, ' !hairy Cox. of Lynmouth. was drowned, but bin oonpanion was rescued after [wing in the water un hour.  Mrs. Ann Peart, e widow eighty-eight years of age, of Vietoria.itreet, Denton. fell as she was going upstairs to bed, and broke her leg. Th, bone would not knit together, and her death has resulted.  For entering a cottage and frightening a woman into giving hitn a meal, a powerfully-built tramp named James llogan Wa • tent.•nced to three months' imorisonment Halesowen, Worcestershire, on Tuesday. Captain John Macintyre, harbour-master and pilot superintendent of Grangemouth Docks, was on Tuesday muminted harbour-mast -r of Belfast, at a saraly of £5OO per annum. There were nearly 200 applications for the post. The Archbishop of York was at Nottingham on Wednesday night presented with a itrintetial cross for which nearly 50,000 members of the Church of Englund Men's Society in all parts of the world had ..ulsoribed a penny each. The Hemel Hempstead Board of Guardians on Tueldtay concluded the inquiry into the deaths of three inmates ci th.• workhouse after being bathed. The board, after sitting for throe hours. decided to dismiss immediately all three nurses, one of N, holm Nurse Be!lainy, was on Friday
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-09-25 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

CHAPEL ANNIVERSARY.  DR. DOWNES ON GENTLENESS.  The anniversary of the Union-street Wesleyan Chapel, _Accrington, was celebrated on Sunday, the preacher for the occasion being the Rev. Dr. R. P. Downes, of London, editor of "Great Thoughts." At the morning service Dr. Downes preached to a large congregation, and the choir rendered the anthem "Judge me, 0 God" (Mendelsaohn). In the afternoon Mr. John Dusbury. of Manchester, the well-known elocutionist, recited " Prince Jonathan." There was a large congregation. and the Rev. D. Solomon presided. The church was crowded at the evening service, and seats had to be provided for a good number in the aisles. The choir sang the anthem "Who is like unto Thee?' (Sullivan). 1 Taking his text from the 18th Psalm, 35th verse, '• And Thy gentleness hath made me great," Dr. Downes drew a word picture of the gentleness of I the Creator iii all His works, and spoke of the grace of that gentleness as being a balm to the hearts of weary lives, and oil to the tired wheels of the labourer. God's gentleness Was all the greater because it was associated with power, and the condescension of it made it all the more effective. It was even with gentleness that He smote His enemies. He knew the frailness of humanity, and he knew exactly hew far men were the authors of evils, and how far they were the victims of evils--how far the man of to-day was put into evil because of ancestry and temptation. and they might be sure that He would judge accordingly. God's gentleness was everywhere around them. It was in the flowers, the birds, and in tile very foundations of the earth. The gentleness in the mighty operations of nature I were truly wonderful. There was no empty parade. It We. manifest in the revelation of WA Son Jesus (brig% He came as God desired, and His greatness wit.- sheathed in exquisite gentle, ne,s, and that gentletiess suited our weakness—it suited the waifs and she shattered. Jesus Christ CHM,' to minister to the poor. The happy and the wealthy and the fortunate could look after themselves. Ile CBlllO to the help of the broken and weary to give them union and communion with God, and how truly they could say if they accepted that, "Thy gentleness bath made me great." All His work WEIS suited to our infirmity. so that Ile could give as peace in-this world and eternal peace in the world beyond. Our sicknesses, our shattered idols were so that He could reclaim in. snd help le- and prepare us for the better lite. God's gentleness was always at work for the re• deniption and uplifting of the word. and His coming would intake the world brighter. There was something in that gentleness which should appeal to all. The greatest folly of any man was to get God out of his heart, for then all hope and bright' ties' seemed to go. If there was no God in the lii•art, there was 110 hope in it. The majority of the suicides of today were because of that absen,e of God in the heart. and he appealed to his hearers to ever keep the .pirit of the Creator and His great works within them.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-12-18 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

JESSEL'S REPLY.  In acknowledging the resolution, Mr. Jesse' said: I must thank you for this splendid vote, and I go forward to this election with a brave and cheerful heart. .(Hear, hoar.) I must thank tho lady and mantlekten Who lave been good enough to support the vote, which has been serried by each aeclarnation. It was very gratifying to mo l• to be able to hide my blushes bobind the stalwart form of Captain Harweed—llaughterl—and I can only say with reference to what he and others have said. that I will do my best. Dr. Craig rood not be nervous about mo being a fighter. Somebody I think suggested I was a .stranger to Lancashire. I am not a stranger to Lancashire men. I know them very well, and I know the fighting spirit which animates them. What you have got to do. remember, is to 001T10 outeide, that is where the fight is going to take play,. I am very much struck with this poster, "Portrait of now Tory Candidate; Mr. Jewel's First Speech Last Night.” and then "Suicide at Accrington." 1 (Loud laughter., Well, ladies and gentlemen. ell I can say is I hope that this horrible story about Mr. Baker is not true. (Loud and prolonged laughter.l With regard to what Mr. Rushton  said, I thought that IM Cu. dead. I did not want to say much about it, for a reaeon you will appreciate, that the gentleman, shall I call hiss gentleman? who was responsible for it is a member of my own profession, although he is boa member of the English Bar. I thought the vigor. ous Lotion of Mr. Balfour and others had easily killed that horrible story, but apparently it is not ea. We must therefore go from platform tta platform and privately as much as we can maw. ing those old poople what a foul invention it is. , We lost the last election through a lie, we will take care and not loan this one by another. There ! is one thing I did not touch upon, and that is ! this question of Home Rule. I suppose you dia not ask anything about that because you knovg what my views would be upon that queer:iot. When the topie of the hour is the supremacy el the House of Commons the idea of this question' coming up as to whether we shall allow the Irish to govern not only their own affairs but also tie govern us. (Laughter( We know that it is Ia the nature of an election move, and it may be whim the measure does come in it will be a way, mild and Moors.us measure, in order to re. aware Lord Rosebery and Mr. Haldane, who wee not long ago one of the most devoted of his fol. iowers. Now really I must bid you good-bye fog the present, and I thank you once more fot thie glorious and inviting reception. (Cheers.)
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1909-09-18 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

YOUNG WIFE'S TRAGIC SUICIDE  TIED TO A DOOR HANDLE.  THE CAUSE A MYSTERY"  Mr. Ilaslewood. deputy flirOner, held liii ilaildry at the Accrington Town Hall on Monday afternoon, concerning tine death of Eliaibeth Susan Pilkington, aged 27. wife of James Pilkington collier at Ilunctiat Pit, of 58, Manor-street, Accrington. Mrs. Pilkington was found strangled with a shawl in the bedroom on Sunday afternoon under eircumstanocs detailed trek, Janus Pilkington, tine husband, said his wife Was expecting her confinement any day. They had 41inn, together aloud two o'clock on Sunday afternoon. and at 3-30 his wife went upstairs to Inn' down, leaving him downstairs. About four o'clock Inc had iateusion to go upstairs and foam! his wife lying on the liedrmin floor. A neck shawl was tied round her fie,k, and one end of the shawl was lied to the lirralle of the bedroom door. Ile cut her ,linen :it once and sent, his brother, who was 41 the bootie, for Dr. Naftali. Dr. Grady, Dr. Naftali's assistant, came and pr. in:minced Ho extinct. They had three children, one aged five, and twins two years and seven ficitalis old.  The Del uty Comm,: Had -hcre !urn any trouble le,tween you and your wife that day?— No  Had you quarrelled with her?—No. There has been bother between her brother and his wife and family will live next door but one. She had  1,411 sticking up for her brother. There has ba,rn trouble between her brother and his wife and she bus bcen I nixed up with it?— Yea.  Inspector Garvey : This is the first thoe you have said anything about that. When did you knew abdut it?  Witness, I line v yesterday. Inspector Garvey: Then why didn't you tell the about it this morning when they raw you?— ! wit: ...A thinking nn thing aboot it.  Do you know what.- the bother was about?.  • Abult her brother turning his wife out. The Deputy Coroner: But there has been no rroublo between you and your wife?—No. Did she take it t.eriously to heart about having nolt'ler child!—She never said anything about it. You tell us that you were comfortable together at dinner time, two o'clock. and after that, and with,tt any reason whatever, Ate hanged herself? —Yes  Tiwre was no quarrel between you?—No. What time did :,-Ou route home to dinner?.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1919-03-22 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDE OF AN AGED WOMAN. SAD ACCRINGTON AFFAIR. On Monday afternoon, MT. D. N. H.lewerei, the ..vrt Isincevdtee Coroner, held an inquert the Arerington Hall. relating tc. the death of Am Harken, aged 67, ..if.. a Wreard llarker. solool earetakre, d 96, Richmondlletrent. -hose body was found in the lodge connected with 61ths. Howard and IhilloµGis works off Ormarorelmet, alvmt eight o'clock on Saturday morning. Ridded Harker, husband of dammed. stated that Ida *7,' had enjoycd gond health im M Moth Eve Mob months age, sine. she hid been under the ammtion ViLriOW ainCtOTS itt different rano,. She suffered from gareritie. About eleven ...cloak on Friday night witiress took some gruel urethra for Mb' wife. Mon she appeared tory cheerful. and talked about the doctor having ~.dthe ~.,ad get up do follereng dm and Rua she ma ~,,,t trete, Witore afterwards went to bed angle mono room ! and slept until hall .past sis the following morning. I lb.wile ea then mussing from the bsdroont and he at once dressed and went downstairs. !The front door me wide open and information of denveurel's absence wee rem. to the police. Thomas Harker. son of Me lad with,. who cm copied Rol:wok redrew, demeed ta.t *way after midnight he heard common poking do fire in the front nom where his father and MM O dept. Everything was quiet afterward. and he tell asleep age, Pathick 4949,-k... a 114. Dale-Meet labumer at Meager Howard and Rellough. stated that he ma work., oce .c embankment .4 97,. lodge on . day morning, rind about ten mins.. tonight found a pair of rents and a Aired, On looking into the lodge !he found a month floating in tres water Mee ! downward, The watet st this point me about does feet deep and dreamed ma four yards from Me wide. P.C. to recovering the body from t'dffu. Deceased ma fully dtt..d with the exrept., a shawl and tools. Replying to the Coroner. the huthand mid hie ..it, had not had ant trouble ereept her illness. The Coroner attributed derrened, action M • sudden fit a mental deemed, cm amount of bar illnees cowl returned a rerdict So effect Rath the drowned herself whilst of mewled minci.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1918-06-15 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

BURNLEY POLICEMAN'S SUICIDE.  ague.i wee he's] co Monday. the Burrawy Town Hall -1% Pon, Walona, aged 46, a member of the lthroley Pollee Fone, santng et 64, Berry. greet, widow deamileted body was bond co the rsoway MU' dowoeley Matron emly Met Frtday mormag. lb, wtrlow of the decented Oohed dad at itservels &gang the peat 13 years he had beetn troubled with nerve attack, and suffered from I. mamma recently. He had also bean worr,ed ebout • aonapho waa out on France, and oornplanwal cal Fed ea the heed. Lam Thureday mornmg he none off wake duty about 630, Ind onteed of 00.0 d bed he went out agam at 130. eayang had roma caldron to coated He returned at 1-30, ay.' ws• teem naked hen if he bad been mosouol. Ile , pled, No; I Mall got hae, yeas. for Mg." The Deputy Coroner in you know what he was I referrlng to? Witmer, 'To a case of chaturbenoe oat dm pee-1104.0001.0, ngls, end he sad he had hot ha 11L4611. 1.11. added that her huctranal orernmed to go In nee the duet.o. Ile went out eland 1.40, and Alm del not wee boo Love agarn. He had another mo who mos etereddag Me reline, up ciders, end thee had troubled ban. He had often expre..ed a *dell the, he was deed. By the Chh.f Constable Il4r. W. H. Smith): Iwo? Ewen much worrted about hie two daughter., imag.nlng that tlsy might be taken foe naltonal.reddsoe.  P. 43 lirap, of the Burnley Borough lic.,mid deeeared hod ionieisirsid to hint of insomnia. There i I!4 tore no oomphtints about deceased's work. 104 t Friday morning strut 430 want. wee callert to a ,ait on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Reilws, shout 200 yawl. lievond Townelsy Station, where be friond the renitain..of P. Wik Th, body tvaa tho rix.foor It-ay, and the severed beset wee lying in the lour foot From the poeition of the holy it wan evideet that Wilkie. had gone or the spot liinerelt.  The ( hh.f ( otataiiht oxpreword nympothy with thn ; widow and family. end added that during tit,. 20., volt, Willtim had -.rteff in Ilto pekoe force them,. had bono no blank tepid. agionnt him. On the onotrart. he hnd hoot, nitwolirnenhd .fne intr.. tindta t'in • long time lin fad pluckily twrrad h. took nlan ent,ht have obtaan...l a medinal nort•fgere and nwted. In theat. tams. of danger inJan ,tatemento yotrn unfortunatnly very pray. I, ot. SW affortme twoglet in flat Public • wort-ion. It had beer, runtound that Wags*. on.. matted Lb* n.l baratwe ha had nwervai ht. rwiloterup Th•r murk...inn Wan absolundy kb.. A venitra of '• whiled rif %mound 'anal" wen retnersed.  A skeleton with • bulk through Ate head hat horn found under ten arriuntdation Wien ms,es at Sineleron Ahben. Obasnontan. Air ..Lurnier Rinnth judge .A bhe Pits of Luntlnn and Obntraf Criminal Cour. fuer] 1901 to 1913 died in r /Mak. Ratowlee. assil eiehts four D. 903bert Farqu/wrann. the M P. for Wed Aberdemdwm. who awl an the Muer he -owned • mwunasob" dud on Saturtbay. aged nighty one.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1902-01-04 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

HANGED BY A SCARF.  An Accrington labourer, named John Bradshaw, 55 years of age, and residing at 51, Plantationstreet, committed suicide on Thursday morning by hanging himself. He had suffered from rupture and had been low spirited for POMO time, though he was able to follow his employment to within a fortnight of hi. death. About 5-50 ou Thursday he arose and had some breakfast with his son-in-law, Henry Edward Rlalor. About 5-55 the latter left to go to hie work, and deceased should also have gone at brealckwt time. but at half-past eight his daughter Annie, on tanualg downstairs, found him hanging from a hook ic the ceiling of the front room by a scarf and a leather belt. She raised an alarm, and a lodger named Harry Memel, cut the body down. but Bradshaw was then quite dead. Mr. F. P. .Robinson, deputy-Coroner. held the inquest at the Town Hall yesterday aftertemn.Mr. Fred Royston being chosen foreman of the jury. Ileseeaseds daughter gave evidence as to finding the deceased it, the front room hanging from a hook in the ceiling. and deceased's seam-law stated that he lead been low-spirited for some time, RIO he was very quiet on the morning in question. He had never litord deceased threaten to (.0111111111 suicide, but at the beginning of the week lie talked about who was to make his eoffin.—Harry \lawn, who lodged at 51, Plantation-street, said he slept with the deceased. He was quite aware that he suffered from ropttere, and it seemed to trouble I • tot. Witness, asked by the forenean of the jury as to how deceased hung himself from the ceiling, said he must have got on a dresser, put the scarf round hi, neck, and then dropped to the ft:ker.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of onsonnd
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1902-12-13 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

FGUNDATION WAIN ES LAID.  schools followed. With regard to crime alone. although our population had 111,0•Sed PO enormously our prisons were only half the number they were when tier Eiliiestion Act id 1870 out Framed. (Hear, hear.) He thought. •Itlanigli it might Ire said at times that the sehoolinaater wan abroad, the sehool• master.) take credit for having pulled down eon.o of those prisons. (Hear, hear.) Mr. P. H. Taylor said that tho drink hill was £189,000.000, and that was a larger amount pi, head than when the 'Teroperance movetinnt began There were then not morn siiivideia said had mints not ehanged in character? Mr. Horsborgh said the difficulty arose in answer. irig the questions as to what erintes could he attri• butyl to education, and what to other cauays. He thought if the drink bill was so largo as stated they might have it. ro a cause sufficient to account for suicide.r and insanity. (Hear, loom) WOl,O it not for education, perhaps the trunk hill would be greater than it wao.  Mr. !teary asked if he would favour a scheme for the children being maintained by the Stat., sr food and clothing? Mr. floraluirglii I should like to think almut that before I answered it definitely. (Laughter.) Mr. TOWSISPIIII MOVell a vote of thanks to Mr. !Limburg). for lois pr,imlitness in attendance and the heartiness he hail put into all the les tures Niliell he had delivered. (Applaise.) Mrs. Mills sei.nilesj. and said that she had only one regret, that the luctrires hail not been to tier attended, Ind au the clisimmu had said. what they lacked in ninithers they hail made up in Intelligente. (Hear, heard Mr. Hiirsburgh expressed lois warm thanks, and earl he had been stiinulatid loy the kind loympathy mid interest which the &Infirm.° hail manifested. (Hear. hear.) He had lx,” p!essusl with the dames that had followed the lecturcu and the intelligent questioss, whirl had heen put. (Applause.) The University ross.gnised the eordial efforts WiliPll that rowperative Sr suety and other societies had giten to extend the University lectures, and on their behalf and ilk Owls he begged warmly to thank the Educational Committee. (Applause.) Mr. Healey moved a vote ilf thanks to the ..hairman, eulogising his services renderird to education his I".'ff cornier-6m with Willow-street