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Widnes Examiner. — 1887-06-18 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

INFERIOR.. afternoon at Warrington, whanaa youth named who was seventeen years. of age Tickle' . said that Dr. O'Keeffe had stated they had no power to deal! .. lii..r. 11. B. 'White, deputy coroner,, held an. inquest' • was drowned in the river Mersey:. Deceased, who was with tbe ground on Sundays—Dr. O'Keeffe denied this, and at the Stag's Head Ina Walton Daferiori. on,Thurs-contendo that he said if a nuisance existed the police - - e • .. ... the fiOn of afternoon, Peter Tickle, slater, of 13•. Tilley-street, would &hi- with --it.—The--Chairman suggested • that the day respect! or YU_ iliamt _,,-7worked at Rylands' Brothers, and on Thursday, during the- dinner hour, he and ' half-a-dozen others Clerk elionld write to the police and statethat a nuisance bad Titchett, wireweaver, 36 years of age,. who- lived occurred on the market ground on Sunday, and the Board with his aged mother in Winwick-st. On Wednesday . he was undressed deceased exclaimed " I cannot went to, have a bathe at Howley Quay Wharf. As would be obliged if it did not occur again.—Mr. Gaskell morning the body of the deceased was. recovered; did not think it was fair to cause the police to enforce the from the canal at Walton, undhr circumstances wl' am going to get drowned." lit theniumped Sabbath Observanee Act in that way. It they applied it to that ledto no conclusion as to how he.eame to ' be' isn:onideep water arid struck out as though he were one they should apply it to others, and there- were many in the water, which yet remains a mystery.,---Evi-. works where operations which were no doubCovcessary were ' dence was first given by John Titohett, , agent. going to Swim but he sank immediately. A youth carried on. He did not think it was for the Board to call Rolleston-street, named John iVilliam Stockton tried:, to save him, ' upon the police to enforce that Ach—Dr. O'Keeffe said the brother of the deceased, who, but deceased did not rise again. The river was at identified the body. Deceased was a single. man! . matter was discussed by the members of the Health Co.n-oncedragged, and the body-was recovered an hour ! Wit last saw him alive on the Bth-inst., when mittee, who did not think it worth while to take any ferther h Witness b i hislitter by a man named Joseph Boscovw ice of it.—Mr. Gaskell contended that the Health Com- usual health and spirits... e appeared to e 11 _ notice had the same power over the market ground on Sun- i There was not the slightest reason to make witness day as they bad on any other day.—The Chairman : Quite , believe that deceased would be likely to commit so.—No motion was passed, but it was understood that the suicide. In answer to the jury witness said that; Health Committee should consider the question, deceased was not what could be called' a-drunken,
Widnes Examiner. — 1887-08-06 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY FACTION FIGHT.  An excursion on Sunday of Irish National Foresters from Belfast to Portrush was productive of terrible results, a minister and two other persons being shot, and the train in which they journeyed to the latter place being completely wrecked. It appears that the excursionists, to the number of about a thousand, left Belfast I in two special trains about nine o'clock in the morning Ito spend their annual holiday at Portrush. On arriving at that town they were met by a crowd of Orange'men, and serious rioting ensued, many people on both sides being inure"d with stones and bottles. I The town was in an uproar all day, and the respectable inhabitants, as well as many English and American visitors, fled to the houses to avoid injury or molestation. The handful of polite in the place, however, succeeded in preventing anything worse than broken heads. After spending some hours in Portrush, the excursionists left for Belfast, and it was on the home journey that the most serious part of the day's havoc was witnessed. Intelligence of what had taken place at Portrush seems to have reached most of the stations along the line, and as the trains were passing crowds which had collected along the railway stoned the excursionists, nearly all the carriage windows being smashed. The excursionists retaliated with bottles and other missiles. At Ballymoney Station several shots were fired from the first train. One young man, a grocer's assistant, whilst crossing a bridge which spans the station, received a bullet wound in the chest. Similar scenes took place at all the stations between , Ballymoney and Ballymena, stones being thrown at the I trains and shots fired in return. At Ballymena a Presbyterian minister named Dowds, whilst proceeding to his church to conduct Divine service, was shot in the leg, and a young man standing on the platform was severely I wounded. On the arrival of the trains at Belfast the excursionists got into cars. They were pelted with stones by a band of Orangemen, and replied with empty bottles; but the police prevented a serious development of the disturbance in Belfast.  About a.m. on monaay, a man was seen ,co jump from Clifton Suspension Bridge into the river Avon. The body fell in mid-stream at high tide, and was subsequently recovered by some boatmen, who conveyed it to the Bedminster mortuary, where it was identified as that of a young man named Miller, a paperhanger by trade. This makes the twenty-fourth suicide since the bridge was opened in 1864.  In the Queen's Bench Division, on Monday, judgment was given in the appeal of a publican, who had been fined £3O and costs at Bow-street, at the instance of the Inland Revenue authorities, for diluting ale by mixing strong end small beer together. The Court upheld the conviction, Mr. Justice Grove remarking that if publicans were allowed to make a mixture of this kind there would be a considerable falling off in the revenue.  Dressmakers can buy no better sewing eotton than Bagley and Wright's, whtell for strength is unequalled.—Advt.  .'""`t,e
Widnes Examiner. — 1914-07-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

CANCER AND SUICIDE.  Wife's Discovery in a Bedroom,  "Oh, God, Ernie, what have you done?" was what Mrs. Edith Crutchley, of 32, Factory-lane, asked her invalid husband, who lay on the floor with an open razor in his hand. The story of the man's sufferings and his suicide was related at the inquest conducted by Coroner Brighouse at Warrington on Wednesday. Mrs. Crutchley said her husband was 35 years of age and a general labourer. He had been in failing health for a number of years, and about four years ago he underwent an operation for an ulcer. For the 'past five months he had been suffering from cancer, and had been attended by Drs. Lees and Liston. On the previous morning she gave him some medicine, and after he had been downstairs some little time she assisted him upstairs and told him to sit down whilst she went to fetch something from downstairs. On her return to the front bedroom she missed him, and she called to him. He replied, from the back bedroom, "I am here,Edie," and when she saw him there in such a position, she made the remark quoted above, to which he replied, "God forgive, I did not know." The razor dropped from his hand, and although doctors were called he died shortly afterwards.  A Very Sad Case. The Coroner: It is a very sad case. He was suffering from this terrible disease, and in all probability he would not have got better. Possibly his sufferings had unhinged his mind and made him say to himself, "I don't care what happens." I think you, the jury, are justified in saying he was of unsound mind at the time. A verdict of " Suicide whilst temporarily insane" was returned. The Coroner expressed the sympathy of the jury and himself with the widow.
Widnes Examiner. — 1914-07-11 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SERIOUS RUNCORN CASE. The charges of attempting to murder his wife and of attempting to commit suicide at Runcorn on April 23, were preferred against James Simpson, a labourer. Mr. T. H. Parry, M.P., for the prosecution, said that on the morning in question prisoner had a quarrel with his wife, struck her several times with his fist, and caught her by the throat, saying, " I will choke you. I will do for someone." Just as she got to the door prisoner put his left hand over her shoulder, and with his right hand drew something across her throat. She then found that her throat was cut. Prisoner called at the Halfway House, Halton, and he then had a wound in his throat. In reply to the landlady's inquiry as to how it was caused, the prisoner said, "I have cut my throat and served her the same." When arrested prisoner had a razor in his pocket, and in ,reply said it was caused through a married man. Prosecutrix admitted that she had given her husband cause for the jealousy through her conduct with another man. Harold Hammond, prisoner's stepson, said during the struggle when he saw his father with the razor, he ran and pulled him away. Martha Buckley, a neighbour, deposed to hearing prisoner and his wife quarrelling. She saw prisoner with his arm round his wife's neck. She thought he was making love to her before she went to work. She then saw that he was cutting her throat. Dr. Whitlaw said the woman had a wound in her throat five to six inches long and a quarter of an inch deep., Mr. Wynne Bankes, for the defence, urged the jury to say that the evidence did not show the prisoner assaulted his wife with intent to murder her or do her grievous bodily harm, and their verdict should be one of unlawful wounding.  _ The jury found prisoner guilty of unlawful wounding._  -On Tuesday the accused came up for sentence. Dr. Pennell, medical officer at Knutsford Prison, said that the prisoner was very feeble, and had had two paralytic strokes. He would be well looked after in the prison hospital. The Judge said he would have sentenced prisoner to a lighter term than he intended but for the fact that he would be taken better care of in prison than when he was out. He would be imprisoned, and kept to whatever hard labour be was capable of for two years.
Widnes Examiner. — 1914-11-14 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

NCTUREDROME.  Entertaining programmes have been the order at the Picturedrome this week, where for the first three nights "A Victim of Blackmail," a two-reel drama, was the principal film. The series of adventures shown under the title of "Lucille Love" were continued, and these two films comprised the dramatic element in the first programme. Comedy was provided by the films "Snooker's •Flirtation," "Mike Wins the Championship," and "The Fireman's Social," whilst a scenic picture, "Interlaken to Scheidegg," was much appreciated. The " Gaumont Journal" and the "singing" •pictute—" Everyone will be a soldier "—concluded a really excellent programme. Next Week.  Two good programmes are promised for next week, when the principal attractions will be "The Little Orphans" and "The Suicide Club."  Buttermarket-street Arbitration. Mr. Edward Holmes, of • Sheffield, civil engineer, the umpire, has made his award in the matter of the arbitration between the Rev. Joseph Howard and the Warrington Corporation re the acquisition for the purpose of widening Buttermarket-street of part of the premises in which the reverend gentleman has a life interest. Mr. Holmes has declared that the price to lie paid by the Corporation is ~t 1,245 which sum carries the whole of the claimant's costs. It will be remembered that the arbitration proceedings took place at the To`wn Hall on October 14th last. Mr. John Mainwaring was arbitrator for the claimant, and Mr. Hanson for the Corporation, Messrs. Robert Davies and Co. and the Town Clerk being the solicitors concerned in the matter.  Praise for the Mayoress. Had it not been for the fact that Alderman 'Peacock had, in the Mayoress, a very fine helpmate—(hear, hear, and applause)—he would not have been able to fulfil all the duties imposed upon him so efficiently. The charming manner in which the Mayoress had carried out her share of the work reflected the greatest credit upon her. All would agree that she had been most courteous and kindly in her manner, and that what she had been called upon to do she had I done gracefully and well. (Hear, hear.) Alderman Peacock had undoubtedly had a great task, but he had accomplished it ably and well, and he (the speaker) was quite sure that when ole Alderman's second term of office came to a close they would be able to number him among the gentlemen who had discharged the duties of the chief magistracy to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. They hoped that the coming year, under Alderman Peacock's guidance, might be a year of success for the municipal government of the good old town, and that early on in it the war would come to an end, so that the Alderman and his good lady might have a happy, successful and peaceful year. (Applause.) THE MAYOFt
Widnes Examiner. — 1914-01-31 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE TORY- NICKNAMES. Mr. Oliver said that everybody would agree that the Opposition papers who called the Liberal party the " Suicide Club" were very wide of the mark. He did not think there wari anyone, certainly any Liberal, who was desirous of endangering the security of the country. They were sometimes called "Little Englanders," now they Were called the "Suicide Club," but they had no desire, to .see their security in any way diminished, and they had certainly no intention, while they were in office, to_commit suicide.  He thought figures showed that they had an overwhelming superiority and absolut• security. .According to the Official figures, Germany expends £23,000,000 Sr on the Navy, and the Triple iAlliance £39,000,000. We alone spent £47,000,000, or, if they took the triple entente, £97,000,000. They should be safe with figures like that.  The Irish Deputation. To come nearer home, he said there had been a deputation to Ireland—claughter)—composed of the twelve apostles from Warrington. These Pilgrims visited nine places and travelled 2191 miles, probably most of it in railway trains, and the six 'Liberals now considered they were competent to over-rule the judgment of Mr. Wilham Ewart Gladstone. This pilgrimage was not tragic, but rather farcical.. He wanted them to realise how one-sided the ." inquiry" was.  In "The. Warrington Examiner" of last Saturday there appeared an article reprinted from "The Ulster Guardian," which showed how " impartial " the tour had been. The deputation did not visit the Ulster Liberal Association, or the United Irish League in Belfast, neithex did they visit the Dublin Liberal Association, or the Dublin United Irish League.  " Absolute One-sidedness." The absolute one-sidedness also was apparentin a telegram sent by a Liberal, who told them "that all trade nnionists here (in Ireland) unite in condemning Home Rule." ,As a matter of fact, the Chairman of the Belfast Trades Council and other trade union leaders he mentioned were all in favour of Homo Rule. Mr. Ravenscroft would have to have another shot. It was only natural that the trade union officials should be in favour of Home Rule, because the very fact of the question being unsettled interrupted the social reforms which Ireland needed. Still examining the perfectly impartial manner in which the inquiry was conducted, they found that the deputation did not visit such a large works as Messrs. Harland and Wolff's, but that of Messrs. Workman, Clark and Company, where all the recent bitterness amongst the Protestants and Roman Catholics commenced. A gospel, or whatever they liked to call it, had been issued, and apparently it contained all the reasons which had converted the six Liberals to the opposition of Home Rule. Mr. Oliver dealt with the various pare graphs of the " trippers' " report, showing that in the main it was an indictment against the Conservative idea. The Land and Housing Questions were also referred to by Mr. Oliver.
Widnes Examiner. — 1914-06-06 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SATURDAY.  Before Mr. R. T.-Fairclough (in the chair), Alderman Tinnion, and Mr. A. J. Jolley. Attempted Suicide.—Mary Grady, a young domestic servant, who lived with her parents at 3, Pocket-street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the River Mersey the same morning.—The Chief Constable said that about ten minutes to seven that morning Mr. James Bell, 44, Cockhedge-lane, a miller's labourer, employed at the Mersey Flour Mills, was standing on the landing-stage opposite the mill when he saw the prisoner jump into the river. He promptly plunged in after her, got hold of her hair, and succeeded in getting her to the bank, with the assistance of a lock-keeper named Charles Gatley. The woman was handed over to Inspector Stuart and she said she had had some trouble at home with her etep-fatber. She alleged that her clothing had been pawned, and she had told her step-father that she was going to drown herself and he told her to "make a good job of it." The step-father was called and he denied the allegations, and said it had nothing to do with him, to which the prisoner exclaimed: "You are the cause of my doing it." —The Chief Constable: There does not seem much sympathy from the step-father.—The woman's mother said that early that morning, before she got up, she heard prisoner quarrelling with her sister over a hat pin and they began to fight. Witness went downstairs and did her best to separate them, and in a mad temper her daughter said she would drown herself. Her step-father was very good to her.— Whilst the Chief Constable was asking if there was any truth in the statement that girl's stepfather had told her to make a good job of it, he rose from the body of the Court and said he did not :—The Woman: You did. Don't you contradict, you did.—The mother said the girl had been very depressed in her mind for some time and. she sometimes did not know what she was "Mg.—The Chief Constable said he was bound to say that the step-father was well known to the police, but not so far as coming before the Court was concerned. The girl was deserving of a great deal of sympathy.—She was remanded to .the Workhouse for 14 days, preparatory to being found a home.
Widnes Examiner. — 1914-02-21 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

WOMAN IN THE CANAL. Depression Leads to Suicide.  A pathetic story of the untimely end of a Stockton Heath woman in the Ship Canal was narrated at the inquest held by Coroner •T. Ridgway, at the Stockton Heath Police Court on Monday afternoon. The victim was Clara Mather (45), wife of John Mather, 27, Warburton-street. She was found drowned in the Manchester Ship Canal early on Saturday morning. Arthur Mather, a son, said he last saw his mother alive on Friday night. His father was an invalid, suffering from consumption, and his mother had been depressed about her husband's condition.  Eva Mather said on Saturday morning when she was in bed, her mother came into her room at 2.40 for the candle. Witness asked her what she was going down for, and she said, " I am just going to get father a drink." Witness heard her go downstairs. \ Her mother came upstairs and, re-entering the room, took what witness thought was a black coat out of the wardrobe. She heard her mother close the door downstairs, but thought she had only gone down to shut it, as it sometimes came open.  -Witness got up and looked out of the window, but she could not see her mother. She went downstairs and could not find her. The front door was open. P.C. Richardson described recovering the body from the Ship Canal at 7.15 a.m. He first found a cap on the canal bank. The body was lying at a spot about 12 or 15 yards to the right of the end of Warburton-street.  Mr. Wallhead said he understood Mrs. Mather had been depressed, and that a recent family trouble added to this.  The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide during.temporary insanity." _  The Foreman described the case as very unfortunate, and expressed sympathy with the relatives.
Widnes Examiner. — 1914-10-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TUESDAY.  Before Councillor IL Roberts (in the chair), and Messrs. C. Jackson Holmes, J. Rymer Young and T. Locker.  Alleged False Pretences.—Albert Merchant, labourer, of 149, Great Moor-street, Bolton, was charged with, between October 17 and 19, obtaining food and lodging to the value of 55., by means of .false pretences, from Mary Alice Ingham, of 5, White-street.—The Chief Constable, in asking for a remand for,seven days, said that the prisoner went tp the house of the prosecutrix on Saturday afternoon and told her that he was starting work as a motor mechanic at Messrs. Bellian and Davies's establishment. She believed the statement and provided him with food and lodging until Monday. On that day he was to have started work, but he did not go. He had previously been promised a job at the works on his stating that he could drive a motor. He had triekto obtain money from the firm, but they were too wide-awake.—The remand was granted. Tired of Her Life.—Ellen Radbone, married woman, 9, Stanley-street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the River Mersey near Bridge Foot on the previous ,afternoon.—She was committed to the Workhouse hospital on a 14 days' order.—P.C. Manson, who brought the woman to the river bank, said that she was lying in the, mud a couple of feet from the water's edge. He had to go in the mud up to his knees in order to rescue her. and when he got hold of her she said "Oh, let me drown myself; I am tired of my life !" An Unnatural Mother.—Mary Harris, a charwoman, 19, Beswick-street, was charged with using threats ,towards Elizabeth Mary Cotton, on October 17th, and also with using obscene language in Eldon-street on the same date. She was further charged with assaulting Ethel Harris, her daughter, on October 10th.—Mrs. Cotton gave evidence with regard to the threats and the obscene language.—Ethel Harris said that her mother had been drinking all the day on which the assault was committed. At 10.30 at night she was drunk, and asked witfiess, to go for more beer. Witness refused, whereupon the prisoner knocked her down and kicked her several times. She also struck her with the back of a chair, and the neighbours had to come in to her assistance. On Monday of this week her mother threw a bottle at her, but it broke against the wall. She always treated witness badly when she was in drink.—Questioned by the Chief Constable, witness admitted that her mother was hardly ever out of drink.—The Chief Constable said that Alderman Smethurst had done his best Tor the woman, but it was all to no purpose. She was a terror to the neighbourhood, and her cruelty had caused the daughter to suffer much hardship.—For the threats prisoner was bound over for six months to keep the peace and ordered to find two sureties in £5 each. For the assault she was committed to prison for one month and was told that if she failed to find the necessary sureties she would be committed for a further two months.