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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-04-10 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-10-27 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

FOOLISH ACT."  At the Borough Police Court, on Saturday—before Mr. D. J. Clarke (Chairman) and Mr. C. Wass—a young man named William Corlett, of 58, Powell-street, was charged with attemptng to commit suicide by endeavouring to throw himself into the River Mersey from the Woodside Ferry boat "Claughton." Thomas Eaton, 28, Edgcurabe-street, Seacombe, a seaman on the "Claughton" proved that about 10.30 on Friday night, on a journey across from Liverpool, he was milled to the stern of the boat, where he found prisoner struggling with another man and saying "I'll throat myself overboard!" repeating those words. Witness and another seaman named Everall tried to quieten him, but without success, so they took him to the forward end and called Inspector Radcliffe, who took charge of the prisoner,—ln answer to the Court, witness said prisoner appeared to be under the influence of drink. Prisoner: I had a drop of drink last night.  George Everall corroborated Eaton 'e, evidence.  P.C. lIarwood( 20A), who took prisoner to the Bridewell and charged him, said prisoner' stated: "I was only trying to bluff the parmen.gers and my wife. I did not mean to do anything." Prisoner's wife was called forward, and said her husband was under the influence of drink, and she watt vexed, and he said, "Your'e vexed sith me, You don't wank nip. I might as woll throw myself over." She replied 'Don't be silly." She thought he became annoyed because the man who first got hold of hiin took the matter seriously. Their married life (added witness. in answer to the Bench) had been happy, but prisoner had been out of work for _nine weeks.  --"Pli-e,-61;airmn (t(, prisoner): You have acted very foriiishlY• Prisoner: I would not have jumped over. eir. _ .  With an admonition, the magistr.ltes disoha rged him.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-03-03 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

COMING OF MODEM. SCIENCE.  "The power .uhat science has given us is a power so tremendous that it we persist in using it to destroy one another there is nothing before us but the suicide of the human race. Our forefathers, let them hate each other as much as they would. could not do what we have done in four years of war. Science has made war a thing beyond iflis imagination of people like myself who have not seen at But at least I can tell yon the results of wax. In 4i years we have succeeded in killing between seven and eight millions of men. We have maimed and shattered tens of millions more. We have reduced half of Europe to famine and disease. More than half of the nations of Europe are on (the edge of bankruptcy, and we on the outskirts of Europe are still profoundly affected by the dislocation of Europe. Try and imagine then what the next war is going to be like. Sir Oliver Lodge has said of atomic energy 'God forbid that any people should know how to use this power until they are morally fit to use it. But this terrific power is quite neutral. We can use it for creation if we like. Professor Soddy has told us that to-clay science can abolish threeequartens of the earth's disease, can extract from it such wealth that no man need work more than two or three beers a day, can rebuild our cities and bring into the Jives of the lowest leisure and light and  jov." That was a prophecy made not by divine or a politician, but by a sober professor of that most sober science, inorganic ohemietry. And it was at this point that we settled down and said that we could not go any further. " You who know about war,' she challenged, " you who risked death, will you be content to say that your children shall be thrown into the same furnace through whioh. by inconceivable good fortune, you have yourselves passed— we who might be as g:OCIS, if we chose?" The time would come when the armaments of the nations would fall from them because the conscience of humanity had decided that to try to settle a quarrel by killing eleven million young men was as ludicrous as it was barbarous. When lliVe were desirous of developing the co-operative elide of human nature we would be capable of producing the kingdom of Heaven.  CO-OPERATION v.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-01-31 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Catherine be said about the nation being tired of Foreshow, of Henry-street, was charged . war books and any talk of the war, there with attempting to commit suicide by , can be-no doubt that a visit to tee war swallowing a quantify of carbolic oh. zones is a dear hope cherished by very Annie Whitehead, a tenant in the same many, and that the interest enured in house, stated that at 7.25. a.m. on the 26th that historic ground will never be diesiinst. she was going upstairs when she met I I Peed for the majority of people; and for the prisoner coming out of her bedroom. , the demobilised soldier, however be .nay The defendant said to her "I feel very • declare that he never wishes toeee France bad. I have been taking carbolic oil." On again. be cannot see pictures of Irpies sd . the 'Merlin Gate, and Keminel mid being taken downstairs she asked for her mother to be brought. The latter arrived ' the Albert-Peronne road, without being with her daughter, and a doctor woe then , mG‘re,ri by old memories. summoned. P.C. 42A deposed that shortlyi And those were the r-" urea that wars after 8 p.m. on the 26th inst. he went to semi on the screen on walnesase 43, Henryatreet, and found the prisoner They were photographed last October. as lyi I Major Archer explained, when he nod six ng on the sofa with her face swollen. When charged with attempted suicide she othes officers of the aith Division went to France and Belgium on the reverent misburst into tears. Dr. Mackenzie said the prisoner was received at the Borough Hossion of placing on the crosses over the pital about 9 a.m. the same morning. She graves of the fallen men of the West Lanwas in a condition of shook and much de. cashire Division the divisional crest. This pressed. The elect of the oil would depend 'crest and its motto. "They win or die who upon the extent to which it had been wear the Rose of Lancaster," will endure adulterated. Chief Inspector Lodge said; for all time as the distinguishing mark the prisoner's husband had received severe of the men who fought so gallantly under shell shock whilst on active service and General Jeudevine; and inscribed on was now mentally deficient, In view of ;metal discs. sarialcr to the cockades which the sad circumstances in which the priso- our French &bee employed for their ner was placed, the magistrates decided to payee, it now stand* on the crosses of place her under the care of her mother those who lie buried in a foreign soil and to dismiss the ease. through the good service of the mission of '
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-10-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

PROMPT ACTION SAVES RES.  Late on Sunday night took exciting incidents I Plaoe at Woodside Ferry, a young woman • attempting to get into the giver both at the geode stage and at the pass prompt aotion of e. young senger stews, bat being sated by the man Whose attention had been drawn to her. There wae ft sequel at the Borough Police Court on Monday, when, before Aid. E. G. Mason Metcalf (24), of 79; (chairmen) and Aid. J. Gambit Annie Kempston-street, LiverPool, was charged with, attempting to commit suicide by getting over the chains at Woodside Ferry stage, to throw herself into the Mersey. Myer Bernstein of NI, Borough-road,l eaid that about 11.10 on Sunday night he ' , was- with a young • lady near Woodside , Ferry, and going towards the Ferry, when Ihe saw the prisoner break away from a rmagg fellow she was with and rush towards the floating bridge (leading to the kryods ferry stage). The young man came past and asked which way she had gone, and when witness told him he said " She's going to throw herself into the water." Witness thereupon rushed down the floating bridge and saw prisoner attempting to get through Lae chains at the side of the bridge, lie grasped her by the arm and pulled her back, and she cried Let me go. I want to go over there; it. will end all my worries. He got her round the waist and brought her back up the bridge, but she kept edging towards the side. Another man came to assist witness. They took her to the passenger ferry, and there, when the passengers were moving on to the boat, prisoner made another dash towards the chains protecting pmsengers from the water. They grabbed her again, and then brought her off the stage and handed her over to a 'policeman. P.C. Harwood (20A), the constable who received her, said prisoner told him; "I did do it. I wish I was dead; I ha.ve nothing to live for." When charged at the Bridewell she made no reply. • Asked what she had 'to say prisoner (who sobbed a good deal and 6d heir face), replied "I am'awfully sal-17,3w worships, and I will never do it again. I was that upset." A person came forward and said a lady Whom prisoner had done .housework for seven. years, was willing to look after her: It was at a hoarding-house. The Chairmen (to prisoner): What made you do this? Prisoner : I was upset. I had fallen out with my boy, and I did not know what I was doing. I will never do it any more. The magistrates made some unfavourable comments on the fact that the prisoner's young man had not come to the court ;but the prisoner said: "lie got drunk unfortunately, air, and was arrested" (not on this side of the river). , After admonishing the prisoner never to attempt to take her life again, the bench discharged her into the .are of her employer. The Chairman told Mr. Bernstein that they desired to commend him very nine,h for his prompt and exoeLlent conduct in the case. But for his active and persistent efforts, the prisoner might have succeeded in her attempt.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-10-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

HUSBAND WORK I:DSS THROUGH A STRIKE. *  WIFE TARES CARBOLIC ACID. A pitiful case of the effects of being out of work came before Alderman E. O. Mason, and Alderman J. Gamlin, at the Borough Mice Court on Monday, when it was shown that a married woman under the stress of worry and anxiety through having only 118, per week on which to keep the family, drank some carbolic acid, but was saved from fatal remits, under treatment at the Borough Hospital. The accused was Emily Palin, a middle-aged woman, of 2, Shaw's-terrace, and he was charged with attempting to commit suicide. Thomas Palin, prisoner's husband, gave evidence to the effect that after they had gone to bed on Friday night he and his wife had a few words, and afterwards she commenced grabbing at his head and face. Ile asked her what was the matter. She was shivering, and seemed absolutely demented. She afterwards went out of the room with a candle, and he thought that she had gone down to lie in another room, but presently one of the children °ailed out— "Mamma is trying to get through the window." He went to that room and found his wife with the window up, but it was too email for her to get right through. Some neighbours afterwards °Lime in and made her a cup of tea, and witness went back to bed, but later on he was woke up again, and on going down he found his wife lying on the hearthrug. "This is • thing 1 have been expecting for some time," said the witness. 'I have been out .of work six weeks through the slaokness, and she has been trying to maintain seven Temple on lls. We have had a lot of Giantess in the hones, too." He added that one of their boys was run over and killed a few years ago and that had worried his wife. Rose 011egan, Somervillartreet, a friend of the aroused, wve *vista:as as to and then fell down. Witness ran for a policeman, and an azaintianoa came and,
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-08-04 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

MISSING BIRKENHEAD MAN.  Raincoat and Hat Found at New Brighton.  IS HE DEAD?  "I am mad. God bless you dear. Goodbye dear Madge. Please .forgive me." .4. postcard bearing these remarks and believed to have been written by Thos. Davies, of 6, Warraigton-stieet, .Birkenhead, was found in the pocket of a fawn raincoat, which together with a lightcoloured trilby hat was found on a seat on the promenade at New Brighton, on the Ist inst. The raincoat and hat have since been identified as the property of Davies, who had been missing from his house since July Slith last. It is understood that Davies, who was a signwriter and painter by trade went to his employment as usual on the morning of the 96th ult., but obtained permission to take the afternoon off. Be went home to dinner and at about 1.4.5 p.m. left the house saying he was going to attend to sonic business. Prior to the finding of the clothing named by the Wallasey police nothing had been heard or seen of him since. It is stated that he had arranged to get married on the 31st ult., but his sudden disappearance has caused the event to be postponed. For some time past he had been very depressed in his manner, and fears ere now entertained that he has committed suicide.  The following is the description of Davies, who la described as a man of reserved disposition:—Age 31, height 51t. Rine., fresh complexion, dark brown hair, grey eyes, square jaw, clean shaven, and stammers badly. When he left home he was dressed in a fawn raincoat, brown suit, light coloured trilby hat, black laced boots with patent leather toe-caps, a butterfly collar, and a coloured tie.  The 'Birkenhead Neter' is admitted by advertisers to ba one of the best pulling mediums in tbe ooturtry.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-07-10 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

PRISON DOCTOR'S CONCLUSIONS. Only one witness was called for the defence. This WINS Dr. William Norwood East, M.D., a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, who is medical officer at Walton Prison. Witness stated that since April 30th prisoner had been under his observation. He had had long interviews with him, and received reports from prison officials as to his apparent mental condition. In the opinion of witness, prisoner's experiences OD the "Justicia," and particularly on the "Gra.rapian," would have an important effect on his mental bearing. change in manner, melancholia and resuon were all symptoms of mental disorder. • He seemed anxious to die. Witness was asked toty what he would attribute this desire to the, and replied -To thecollision of the 'Grampian,' plus sexual excess over a long period. Be said that he thought he was gains to &come insane, and that he wanted to kill himeelf before he was actually insane. I think that the symptoms were genuine, and had been in existence for a long time before he came under my observation. If I had seen him before the tragedy I have no doubt that I would have certified Andersen as insane." Witness added that since prisoner, had been under observation he had improved tremendous*, and had added •a stone and a half to his weight. The shock of the tragedy might hase tended t* improve his mental condition. Witness ha* seen cams  ktf atbogn7 iiiiirder or attempted suicide I,there the hot_ et violence had -formed the breektug-away point from mental disorder. Mr. bertha= Long nave-you formed the takthat he was capeWe of knowing edlhe act was wrongf—Yea„ Questioned by his lordship, witness said that a man...might be aware of the nature and quality of an act and still be insane. There was nothing inconsistent with insanity about the letters read in Court. At the same time they were not the letters of ainan who did not understand the quality of a contemplated action. Mis. Lordship questioned witness in detail upon the letters, which witness described as genuine. Witness expressed the opinion that the idea of a double suicide was not uncommon.  ifis-TZ:iship: What does he mean when he says "Elsie has took my life just as Surely as if she had shot me"? Witness: I suppose he refers to the sexual excesses.  But there is no suggestion, as far as we know, of any immorality between them? Witness agreed. NO
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1920-05-29 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

CHARGE OF .44TEMPTEH SUICIDE. Before Lieut.-Cot. M. C. )His and .Mr. C. Wass at the • Birkenhead Police Court yesterday, EHen Garroch, a married woman. of Berry-street. was charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking a quantity of.poieon on the 23rd inst. William Garroch, the prisoner's husband, told the bench that he went home on Sunday dinner-time, having had a few drinks though be was not drunk. His wife was, of course, somewhat upset and said, she would "go out of his way for ever."' With that remark she went into the kitchen,got on a chair, took down a bottle of lotion and drank some of the content'''. She had to be taken to the 13orough Hoe.or. Outer, senior house su-rgeon at the Hospital, said the prisoner was in as• ate of collapse and seriously ill when admitted to the institution. The history was that she had taken poison and the bottle produced had contained atrophine, whic.h was a very dangerous poison. For some time her life was in danger, but she was all right now and he thought her discharge from the hospital wa.Q justified. The prisoner said she had nothing to say save that she was very depressed at the time and very sorry for what ehe had done. Chief Inspector Lodge said the prisoner was a very respectable woman. The husband said he was very sorry for what had occurred. He bad taken some drink and the admitted that it would be well for him to give it up; he would take the pledge. Prisoner said she was willing to return to her husband if he would take the pledge and keep it. The Chairman_ said the husband could see what his conduct had brought his wife to. They advised him to take the pledge and adhere to it. The prisoner, promising not to repeat the offence, was discharged with a caution, Miss Toogood being asked to look after her.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1892-01-16 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF A DISAPPOINTED WOMAN. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. At Haswell. on Wednesday, an inquest was held by Mr. Charton, touching the death of Ann Bennett, thirty-five years of age, housekeeper to Ellis Nevitt, postmaster of Eleswall. It seemed that Nevitt recently gave a month's notice to deceased, as be was going to be married, and but for Beunett's death the ceremony should have been performed that day. on Tuesday last week deceased purchased some rat poison, and it is surmised that she must have taken this subsequently, because on Thursday she WIN taken ill with pains in the stomach. She was attended by Dr. Dickson, but she died on Monday afternoon, after severe attacks of pain and vomiting. She told the doctor that on Saturday she had a pork pie and believed it disagreed with her. A post-mortem examination showed the stomach to be terribly interned, with the mucous membrane partly destroyed. That state of the stomach must have caused her death. No doubt she had had some severe irritant poison, and the doctor inclined to the opinion that it was a case of phosphorus poisoning, although no trace of that drug had been discovered. Mr. Nevitt, in his evidence, said Bennett could never have thought he meant to marry her, for he gave her no cause to think so. She had never threatened to do away with herself, bat had often said she would kill him. She was a violent woman, and they frequently quarrelled, lie gave her notice to leave because he was going to be married, and would not need her as servant any longer. About Iwo o'clock on Friday morning he heard her groan. ing, so be went to her room, and as she said she had pains in bar stomach, be made her " something hot." She seemed better, but later in the day he sent for Dr. Dickson, as she was worse again. She never complained on account of receiving notice to leave. She had asked him to get some mouse poison, but be refused, and said the cat could kill the mice. Mr. John Fleetcroft, chemist, proved the sale of some phosphor paste to deceased, who said she had used it before. Be gave her verbal instructions how to use it, in addition to the directions printed on the label. Mrs. Bennett, an aunt of the woman, said deceased bad been living with Nevitt for over two years, and had frequently told witness that be bad promised marriage. She was much grieved at the thought of his marrying another woman. Witness had seen her during her illness' but she never admitted having taken poison, although she was several times questioned about it. No trace was found of the phosphor paste bought by deoeased. The Coroner said there was strong presumptive evidence that the woman had swallowed the poison and that she had reason to do so; for no doubt she was a disappointed woman, but there was no direct • evidence on the point. The jury returned an open verdict.