Runcorn Examiner. — 1893-04-29 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

INQUESTS AT WIDNES.  Yesterday Mr. S. Brighouse, county coroner, held inglens at Wi‘lnes.  On the body of Noah Lamb, 24 years of age, labourer, 0(46, Viaduct-st., who committed suicide by hanging on Wednesday morning. The deceased got up at halfpast six to go to his work as usual and an hour later he was found in the water tloset at the back of the house suspenced from the rafter by a clothes line.—P.C. Cratlshaw cut the body down which was warm at the time, but life was extinct. The clothes line was wrapped 'round the man's neck fivefold and fastened by a runnoose. His toes touched the ground, but his knees wore drawn up, showing that the deceased had acted with great determination. A brother stated that the deceased bad been strange in his manner since the death ot his father and inother.—Tile jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.  ping  •On the body of Thomas Wal,h, aged 14, a plumber's blower, of 7 Milton-se. Mr. G. W. Al;en (Oppenheim and Malkin) represented the United Alkali Co. The deceased Wag employed at Mathieson's Works, and on Tuesday anernoon about half-pig three 'he was in charge of the bellows at the top of No. 4 Vitriol chamber. -1 he bellows were connected by a tube to a machine for the purpose of blowing air down to the plumbers below. For some unexplained reason and in the face of direct orders to the contrary, the lad appears to have left his bellows, 'and climbed to the top of the draught tunnel for the purpose of getting to the other side. lie carried the bellows with him and was in the act of lowering them down, when he overbalanced hima.•nd fell toTthe roof of the salt cake shed, a distance of 26 feet. Fie received such serious injuries that death resulted in an hour. A verdict of accidental death was returned.  On the body of an infant named Mary Ellen Beech, daughbfr of Ralph and Mary beech, of 33. Market-st., who died from suffocation on Sunday. It appeared that the Beech family only occupied the kitchen and one room of the house, and one bed held the father, mother, infant. a girl aged ten years, and a boy aged eight years. On Saturday night father and mother were both drunk, and the former quarrelled with his tcif(,'a brother. At two o'clock on -* on Sunday morning I..specter Pattinsen and P.C. Mes senger went into the place because of the great uproar and found the two men stripped and fighting. At halfpast two the mother put the child to bed, and at three sheand her husband retired to rest. At nine o'clock t when they awoke, the child was lying there dead.—Dr. O'Kee'iTe said the bahy had been suffocated. —The jury returned a verdict that the child had befill accidentally suffocated, but ask-d the corner to censure the parents—the Coroner conomented strongly upon the parents and three children sleeping in the same bed,and said if the parents spent a little more of their money on 1 their eiil:lren and a. little less on liquor they might be able:to provide sufficient accommodarion. It was nut ; surprising t h as both parents were drunk the child was ; dead. He expressed regret that the law did not allow I him to punisn them in some form.