Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-03-26 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

TOWN HALL.  A man named Thomas Hoyle, an army pensioner living at Mossley, made a determined attempt to commit suicide while confined in the cells at the Ashton Town Hall on Wednesday. That morning he was brought up at the Ashton County Police Court on a ci,arge of threatening to take the life of his wife, Mary Aun Hoyle, on Saturday last. The evidence gives before the magistrates showed that on the day named he went home the worse for drink, and told his wife that he would live with her no longer, and that he intended to cut her throat Sue was alarmed and left the house, and hod not lived with him since. Mr. Coates, solicitor, appeared for the defence, and asked the complainant where she had elept on the previous night. She replied that she slept at her sister's, but defendant asserted that she stayed with him. Corroborative evidence was gives, and it was pro ved that deiendatit had frequently abused his wife before. The magimrates accordingly ordered him to find two aunties of £5 erc i to keep the peace for three months, or go to gaol for one month. The suritieo not being tortheoming, he was removed by an officer of the county constabulary to the cells in the Town Hall. At this time he was under the influence of drink, and when the other prisoners were taken away to Strangeways he was left behind, the prison regnlaf ions prohibiting the reception of perilol.ls in a state of imininition. About ball-past four in the a:ternoon Mi. Dalgliesh the Chief Constable, heard a violent knocking on the door of the cell, and went to ascertain the cause. Believing the pisoner was making the the noise in a drunken frenzy, he ordered his boota to be taken off, but beface going away asked the man what was the matter. Prisoner replied "I have taken puieon." I he Chief Constable declined to believe the statement, but the man reiterated it and the stud he hmt swallowed was vermin killer, and the empty packet was in his pocket. One of the constables imarediately searched him, and found in one of his packets a paper which had contained poison for destroying rats and mice, Dlr Dal gliesh stance ran for a cab, and sent an officer for Dr. Hughes and the stomach pump Dr. Hughes and his constant, Mr. tucker, Came in few minutes and applied the oreinach pump, and since thee the prisoner has been doing welt. He liks since umde a statement to the effect that he bcd bought two packets of poison—one is Mos— they and another is Ashton—and swallowed the contents of one before going into court. The other he concealed bet seen tan body and a flannel belt which be wore round his waist, and took that a few minutes before kicking at the door of his cell. He intruded ta c-munt suicide three or f our days before, but he did net do iL  It is expected that the Floods Bill will be read a second time in the House of Commons and referral to a select Committee before the Easter Holidays.  OKE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41, PILLS matranted to cure all chsclia•ges from the Urinal Organs its either sem acquired or constitutioeal Gravel anti pains in the back.—Sold in boxes es hd. each by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Vendors ;or sent to any address for 6U atamps by use maker, F. J, Clarke, Consulting Chemist, Apothecaries' Hall Hign.alleet, Lincoln —Wholesale Ageots, BA-ECLAT Bests, Louden, mid taw Wholesale b*Away  ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY AN ASIITtiN