The Haslingden Gazette. — 1906-03-03 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

EIIVED.I * * *' 4*****ll, •  1 that the, note had been written at ally rate during ---- , the hat hours of the doct,r's life. It. was cud THE RErtlaT E.si "'CHI: EVENING droned to an old medic...ll friend of Dr. Reilfern'e. HERALD:. and intimated that he would be with his friend at , a certain hour oa the afternoon of the following 110 Tuesday, the 19th of November. 18—, the I day, for the purpooe of attending a vonsultatlon with „atoms %II ,f - Th,.. E,,,,b,, ii,..rad- ,„,i,i,„...3 I him. It is ditfi.ult to suppoo that if Dr. Red lb, ‘,,,,,d, in ku.,,,., lihnel, h.it,,,,..-,..tn,„„,,,,i Thud, 1 f.,rn hat ouitemplated suicide he woidd have written such a note inunednaely before taking ho. own in Belton Skluern Tin' olhiw eve‘,n4 P•Per.dff,'rsil ' life. and equally &Suit to believe that, halving hie no so•It brit.' to P.rninw.tt4; they Pr"ft's'eti to tell own death before hia eyes. he would have left ro only of the "Suit ide of a Medical Man.- But the me...age to any member of his family. editor of the " IleraliV• running his eye over the "It is believed that the het person who wen the rupOrant; 11,001111ta of the death of Dr. Redfern. late physician alive was Ids nephew. Captain Ever. and. being in want of a sensatitmat heading, ,aid to ctt. This gentleman, we have boon informed. himself that the fut. so far as they were known, called on 11,. uncle :a a rather late Lour last night. v..ere as consistent with the theory of a murder as nut did net leave the Lome until after the butler with that of a suicide. So ha ackled a few lines to ar.d the rest of the family had retiod to rest. He the report. awl AMit it out to the world unch, that will, no doubt, be able to throw norm. light moo a tide, point on whin+ the medical men in charge of the This arieldnuital einunatance did something to autopsy desire information, and that is the state of s newt public, atteatata hi the affair. Generally De. Redfern" health on the prooetlim; evening. i.peakin. London troubles itself very little with 1 " rnleal the pwa-mortem examination Thows ihat either murders or .micide". Tragedy after tragedy some organ was in an unite:Jay Oak', WO Antal to is enacted within foe nubs. of St. Paul's. and be shut up to the conelusiim that fir Redfern either tidy • handful if rolalrn.r3 ftna Polienotott know killed himself or met his death from the band of or care anything about them. The -tieam of life another. We have =heady mentioned the difboulgoes on i teen buy anal sell. and nails to and fro, ties which prevent tat front neeepting the former too intent Upon the Lrigei which make up their hypothesis. Th., alternative is murder; but it lives to cant dna iteath has b.sm busy, with per- would be quite prematuni to an that the fairer if hajat ouly a brick wall itoPortntn. An event which, suspicion point, to any partiku!ar individual.in a PrOrlt,atal tot.., would eatke every theek , It will be seen that the editor of the "Evening Ilanch and every eye dilate with horror, which I Herald- had, on he own slowing. built tap this would force men to drop their tools and haunt the 1 theory of murder on very slender foundations. It recite of thereintcs hardly eallSeti 8 remark at a 1.011. was unlikely that Dr. Redfern hail dud a. natural .1,-,n breakfast-tali... death; it was unlikely that he hail committed stn. But th.,e writ one or two einfnmstamee which cid,: therefore Ito was munterml. But people did made men. coming home from business that Tne,- not stop to consider this. The idea that a murder . . ..... . t hold of the popular mind;