Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1873-01-23 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE AT BOUT- the mines every day. It takes me two deer to go day, an inquest • . A STIMICT ON • --. Oa Fri- the round of the mines. I was in the place in quesdeputy coroner graft held before Mr S. Spry, tion on the Thursday or Friday; 1 could not say Saddler and * ~ on the body of William Tomlinson, which. I could have put a baulk in, but it would had been e flatness maker, of South Stockton, who have been very troublesome. Ido not think it fo and hanging by the neck in his own would have been much safer for it. Supposing that egise-ne:ss Deceeeed was engaged in a profitable Donthwaite he rd the conversation about firing the [LATER TELEGRAm.I ant). -f 'm his own account, and leaves a widow second shot, or been complained to about the stone, , our children. Evidence was adduced as fol- and did not examine it, he did not fulfil his duty. zrhe London representative of the owners of Vie 'wee- -Aim Tomlinson said,-The deceased was Mr Willis again expressed a very decided opinion 'North Fleet' states that 97 persons have Veen rn' Ashanti, and 37 or 38 years old. tie has been that Douthwaite had not done his duty in so saved. The number of emigrants is not so large as e W in spirits, but not so as to attract my attention. "smart" a manner as he ought to have done ; not at first stated; they numbered 312, and the crew round him yesterday at seven o'clock in the that he wished to impute any criminal neglect, but morning.-John Fisher Holmes, residing in Steven- at the same time he ought to have paid more atten4Q, The emigrants were going out as navvier. i son-street, South Stockton, carter, said: I knew tion to the matter. He further remarked that be A Lloyd's telegram corroborates the informer I thedeceased William Tomlinson. He wage saddler, considered it impossible for Douthwaite to overlook • I have known him for six or eight months, having 60 men in so efficient a way as to be consistent with previously given, but doubt still remains as + ,o the gone into his house twice or thrice a week. I never their safety. He (Mr Willis) had examined the number of lives lost. The worst, however, ir , feared. noticed any change in his demeanour until Monday place, and it was certainly not in so good a state as e Thirty navvies saved themselves in a . ed, and 34 moraine last, when he seemed to be very dull, as he would have wished to see it. He strongly recomwere brought to land in a tug. fhe master though something on his mind. I next saw mended that more attention should be given to this him yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, sus- sort of thing in future, that the deputy should have was obliged to fire on the male pass' , tai n discipline. Twelve person erg to - main- pended in the kitchen of his own house. I was a less number of men to look after, and that offin , g , were landed at knocking at the door, and Mrs Tomlinson came down eials in the mines should never lose sight of the fact noon. stairs to open the door. Then it was that she that men's lives were under their charge. Tee found him. I saw deceased hanging by a halter, coroner briefly summed up, and the jury returned ilia that produced. I know that deceased had been a verdict of " Accidental death." drinking a little beer lately, but I never saw him drunk. He was quite dead. The rope was fastened  Local and District News.  _Lore 1  THE GREAT CORA' rr AS