Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-06-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday last, the deputy coroner, Mr Spry, held an inquest in the Town Hall, on the body of Agnes Hirst, 70 years of age. The deceased had been ill for some time past, hut was no worse than usual on Sunday night, when she retired to rest. On Monday morning, about nine o`chck. she was found dead in hed. Verdict, " Death from natural (Muses." TIIE WAY TO STOP SUNDAY DRINKING At the Middlesbro' Politw-court, on Friday last, William Appleby, keeper of a licensed public-house called the Whitby Abbey Inn, in Commercial-street, was charged with having wilfully permitted drunkenness, and also with having his hou,e open for the sale of drink on a Sunday morning. Inspector Reed visited the house at a quarter-past eleven o'clock in the morning, and found fohr drunken men sod a number of others partaking of beer, of which there was two half-eallons set before them. Defendant was fined £5 and costs for pernrtting drunkenness, and £5 and e.‘sts for selling dartng prohibited hour-, ; in d fault, four months to prison.—John Cushhns, Wetted Welsh, William Cassell, Rhert liorevrd, John Crawrev, Bernard Oilhvoley, Michael Lisbon, Michael Mu, thy, and John Murphy, were ',touch -rod with aiding and netting :the publican'. offence, and were ora,red to pay is 61 each 0 nits. . .  SUPPoSED SUICIDE —ln inquest was held on Tuesday on the body of a wdman utined Mary Ann "{ayes, fifty-three years of age. The deceatseti was the wife of a man nai,ed James Hayes, and she tel a vety dissolute life. She left hone a fortnight ago, taking with her about two pounds worth of elottftog, and waa udt seep again until last week, when she went to the house of a woman named Short in U.sham-street, and there begged permission to warm betself on several t.ccasio 8. She Tent again last Saturday with •ut shoes or et ckings, and Lad • pint of beer with tole I,ednyworth of laud intim it, it, and afterwards went upstairs to lie ddwn in an empty torn. M. Short ties her there about hal'-past ten on Saturday night, and says she thought the deoeamd left tile bottle. No one went into the room on Sunday, and on Monday one of the children that had been playing upstairs went and told her mother that the woman war asleep on the floor, and looked very white. It was thee found that the deceased was dead—James Bayes, the  husband, said that deceased was a dissipated character. Sae bad attempted to commit suicide three times. He last saw hr at IFirne a fortnight ego, when she took wearing appsrel awsy worth £2—Mr ilu•chall, surgeon, said he had made a post-mortem ex onination of he hody, and F anti *kat death had been e 'used by ortlic aciii.—This was the evid-uce, and a verdict that deceased was foetid dead from the effects of poison was retnrneil.  The monthly inverting of the Town Council w.. held ou Tuesday —tee Mayor in the choir. Minutes t'f the I. ot meeting having been read. time Town Clerk reported tb it tbe N tr•h-liodern Railw y Company bad ogreed to run It train from Middlesh.oudh tool pLocktou to Retlcar on Suirlsy att,noona, and that be had 'received returns as to She amount of busittesa trant,cted at the Stockton County C u• t up to February last. It was reolved to request Mr Rolckow, ?.1. P.. to MOVP for further returns op to the present time, and then to take inrasures necessary for securing Emitter county court facilities for Middlesbrough. Hs had also investigated the alleged iiiof railway charges by the North- &astern Company, I,,it did not find 041 Ibe statements made to the Council on the matte, could be enlist...tat ..ted. The minutes of the oommitters were next considered. The Finance Committee recommended that the pay hill for the month of May, amountiug to £2,671 10s, should he passed, and the General Purposes Corn mittee referred to the Council the cousid -ration of the dilemma in which they were placed by the oonstruction of a road 35 feet wide outside instead it inside the fence of ttie Albert Park, and thereby taking away acres of lad reserved by Mr 13ulckow, M.P., for •ills sites. A lolt_t discussion tolloaed„ and it. was ultimately resolved for the General Put poses Committee to meet Mr Bolckow, and ariange the best way of settliug the matter.—Tne meeting theft closed,