The Haslingden Gazette. — 1907-12-07 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

THE INQUEST.  The inquest was held'in the Court Room of the TolU,.on Monday afternoon, by Mr. Darriei ilasiewood. the- Deputy-Coroner. arsiger you fornman of the jury.  kr..—Annie Branhanan, vidow of the deceased, stated that ho had been drinking heavily for the , met fortnight, and bad not been able to eat or ! sleep. He had also been attended by Dr. Clay- ! ton for exceadve drinking. On Saturday evening ! he was in his bed, and their daughter was sitting with him. In consequence of what the daughter told her she went to the erect door and called in Mr. Robert Haworth. When they went into the bedroom they found decoased lying on the bed with his throat cut in three places. The bedclothes were soaked with blood. Dr. Nut-tail's aseistant wee called in, but her husband was dead. Nelly Boothman. daughter of the deceased, corroborated the evidence given by her mother, and added that her father struck her and made her leave the bedroom. She and her mother got him into bed again, but he got up again and turned her out of the room a second time. He then (stood with hie back against the door so that they could not re-enter the room. When they got into the room again they found deceseed with his thrcat cut, and a blood-stained rasor was on the dressing table. A whisky bottle three parte Tull was to the floor. (This bottle war full the previous night.) The Coroner: How did he get the whisky:. It was fetched for him, but not by me. The Coroner: Who fetched it for him? My mother. The Coroner: It was very foolish to let him have whisky. wasn't it? Ile would have it. If he wanted it we could not ao him.  It was explained that deceased would have got out of bed and fetched it himaelf if they had not done lie. Witnees added that when she had been turned out of the mom a second time she opened the door, reeped in. and sew her father cutting his throat She dare not go in, however, until she had shouted to her mother and they had got someone else to iiait them.  A Judyrnan: Yoe. and I think you acted very wisely in not going into the room again. Tbo Coroner asked the jury to bring in a verdict/ that death waa brought about through unsound mind caused by exeresive drinking. It was cowls cloaking the matter up about excessive drinking. People who get in the habit of taking drink would have it, though it might seem a pity to some of them that a whisky bottle should be in the room where a man wan when in deceased's condition. Evidently, however, it could not be helped. The jury unanimously returned a verdict "flak deceased committed suicide whilet of unsound mind. caus,d. by excou.ive drinking."  Much eympathy it. felt for the bereaved family throughout the town.  For Bronebial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. le. lid.. 20. 94. Damage to the extent of £150,000 was done by fire in Melbourne on •Saturday night, among the goods destroys' being seven thousand telephones belonging to the Government. Alert always to increase motor-ear drivers' interest in the more satiafactory discharge of their duties to both car and employer, Mr. S. F. Edge recently instituted a tyre-economy competition, with the object of collecting from independent sources reliable data as to the life of tyres in everyday use on six-cylinder Napier cars. It , was obvious that the competing cars would all be . of different weights, travelling over roads exemIplifying all the conditions to be encountered in Great Britain and Ireland. and driven by men of varying ability and experence. The condition imposed on the competing drivers was simply that they should eatth furnish on forma provided a report of all tyre troubles, if any, and the mileage done per month, from May Ist to October 31g. last. their reports to be countersigned by the owners of the ears concerned. To enlist the drivers' interest, Mr. Edge offered prizes of twenty-five, fifteen, and ten pounds for the best three distances covered by any four tyres fitted en the four different wheels, in proportion to the weight of the cars. The results of the eompeti• lion prove to have been what one would surmise, to out of the twelvearyes on the winning drivers' ears having been Dunlop.. The average mileages of the winning trio were respectively 5,915. 5,396. and 5,362.75 miles. The outcome has afforded incontestably impartial evidence of the lighteess On tyre of the six-cylindered Napier ear.