The Haslingden Gazette. — 1911-07-15 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

EXPENSES DISALLOWED.  A sal ca, of suicide was reported by the Ac• cri iron inislice on Woinesday. the •ictim being Berth, Parkinson. aged 32, a single woman of 16, Ilnamfb,itavet. Tln, ilecea,ed kept houne.for her two brothers, and had been attended for the past 12 monthn for nervous debility by Dr. Greenhalgh. Abdit one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon she wan 'left alone in the honer, in her WI(lilt state of health. 'When one of low .brothers returned home about six tick.* lii. iOUIId 'the house locked up. and on fore• ling an entrant, lie found his sker lying on the flour with her head leaning against, a chair, and !an India rubber tube from which gas was (traplag lying by her side. Dr. Greenhalgh was at ir once called in. and he pronounced lito to be ex! tiret.  I An inquiry into the circumitanoes was held at 'dm Town Hall on Tuesday afternoon by the Coroner, Mr. H. J. Robinson. and a jury, of linidish Mr. A. Beau was the foroamaehe prereedings taking quite a dramatic turn asg result of the evidence brought forward.  Dom.ased's brother, Thomas. stated that tte had mostly been a housekeeper. Their father died six years ago. and the deceased had been under the doctor on end off over since that occurrence. She End been worse since ohm., Easter. but was about as usual at dinner time on Tuesday. When he canto Wel: at night 110 found the door locked. Ith got thniugh the window and found his sister sitting on the floor with heir head in a rocking chair. Them auto strong smell of gas, and he found it turted on at fuU with india rubber tubing fixel into the gas jet, and widoh readied to where hit sister was. She wt.. dead. The Cermet,. Iliad she had any trouble since Easter that nude her isorse—Not, that I know of. Had she vny affair?-8110 never told one, but we have beard that the people tad sad they had seen a man up. the yariL By a juror: His sister was in the Blackburn Philanthropic Society. Th. Mu. LIMO Conk. spinners' ovcrlooker, 5. Mt lianthstreet. stated that be had known deceased all her life.  Dv filo Curunrr: Muni clid you oegin going nay° been about 8 or 9 times in t.woho monthii.  When am you give over goin—About Eater. DIII ou begin cnir.ing her when 011 turned out that conian who laid been tkich ;con for 12 yea et You have a v.ifo living in America, have you don't know whether she's Living or not. You could Noon have found out if you lind wantedi—l have never heard any thing of her for 21 year  Then you Fro to this young woman who wai not stompirnintied. std. :ring from nervous think you ought to In pretty well aiihamcd of your. If. I think Accrington hi a:Joint-o.ot you. too Witness: I nmer went there with any intention of doing wrong.  By Burt. Garvey: The bark door of ids Louth and that where deeCIMAYI lived wom not quite faring ad: other. Ile tented to gO to the howe Eiuger Monday. Why arkeil MO to give ever going.  Car.- you a,tign no rsuso—No. Her brother trays Ale gut worse after F.a-ter: it looks a signifnunr fart. Witness: I barn never seen her sincr. then..  frhe Coroner, in briefly summing up, said the jury moukl la no diffieulty in toying that deceased mai not of sound mind al the tune of the fatality. . . .  Mr. Kirk. a juror. mild it ira- quite citivirout . . . . . . .  them that the man Cook had ben in illicit introeourae uith the *lowland. and it nmat bay° made a neeat inapreasion on her and it had preyed upon her mind. Ile thought the man deserYod the most SON •NIV cenatire. _ .  Thti flororner: It i.s very disgraceful. Xr. Kirk: I think it is most disgraceful. The jury roturnctl s verdict that dental took pkuso frmn coal giro poisoning taken ulkilt of unsound mind.  The (foreman inquired of the Coroner if the ness Cook had any claim for expetises, an the jury thought they ought to be disallowed. The Coroner (iharply): Ile is not going to get any. _ . .  Mr. Bean: That. is the opinion of tho jury. Cook thew W LIS told ho eoukl leave tho Count.  Mary Ann Nike... of Flcetwoal Ihli farm. fitlicci flall, near Dreiton. watt on Twelay at the Liver. Fuul Assizes a.narcied £63 damages in an action for breaoh of promise which she brought. againg Daniel Swan, a Liserpool cable lelepraphiAt.