Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1909-09-18 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

CHEERFUL BRIDEGROONI. railway emerges from Oxspring tuamel, it The bridegroom had been seen about the goes dowo considerable incline, where town by scores of people during the morning a good deal of brake power is necessary, and everyone testified that his appearance and flacon went on to the tender tor the was just a.s cheerful as a bridegroom's up- Inn'nor., of Ated"tll btrraaine rocat hilei'llesupwPar pearance should be. During the morning msed under bridge, aso nd there seems no —6o, we believe, the story goes,— floubt that the unfortunate man's head an old friend met him in the street, and caught against this and he was 6:vent from asked him to have a drink. "Why," said he the reader on to the four-foot, with his head with a laugh, "it'll be the last before my badly battered. wedding. I don't mind." The same jovial I The driver of a passenger train fram good humour had been noticed in him the Barnsley to Penistone, going past the spot ale) rt nly after saw Bacon lying on the rail: previous. evening, when he went about the wa • in an uconsc. etate. He stopped tvwn doing the necessary shopping before the his train picked the man up and took him great event, and it is stated that he and his to Porristone. From there he was cenveyed bride went over thr new home on Wednes- by the first available train to Sheffield for day evening examining the furniture and hoepital treatment, and the Corporation amgenerally taking stock of their future abid- balance VMS summoned to remove hini to the ing place The bridegroom then showed an infinnart- 'F tie Poor Zlltsdii,!Aintr.eifes. aere affectionate interest in the opinion of the 9°'"ar kt jtre.elillratitutitcani. Ile admissionwasmalivebride on the arrangements:, and there was not the slightest indication at that time that when the ams.o.nee arrived at the Infirmanything so tragic as contemplated suicide ary it was found that life was extinct.. was passing in the bridegroom's mind, al- The urquesst was. held on Mondaiy morning though the general gossip has it that during at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary, and was the day he greeted his family affectionately, and said "Good-bye" to some of his friends, the nelativesmof il'egeegal.P.r, _Mr.i'ed F. Freeman, e°/`'111(;ktdill by Mr D°66PY Wighton:ianbehalf of This may or may not be true. Poesibly it is aosistaat district anpevintendent. Peneastor, one of the little incidents which Rumour fits and Mr. J. L. Stanford, locomotive inepector. in after the event. Mr. Huntington had represented the railway company; and Mr. taken great pains in the preparation of the I H. Parfilt, of Aberdare, organising secretary new home, and in consulting the convenience of the Aosociated Sosiotv'of Locomotive Enof his bride. He gave the impreirsion that he would make an affectionate husband. airy. gineetrs and Firemen. ilea attended the inWalter Amis. goods guard of the train up. A RESPECTABLE FAMILY, on which deceased was worlsOng,.. said they The astonishment and horror of both the :eft Ardwick (Manche:tor) rat 5.0 a.m. on Satunday. They did not stop at Penistose. fatuities concerned can only be imagined, and When they haul pot through OxsPr• Tunthe general publio have been affected in a nol, about a third of a male in length, wit' scarcely less degree by the mysterious occur- zoos looked down the train and saw the derence. For hours on Wednesday the houses reawd on the top of the tender, on the coal. in Makin street were surrounded by a mor- Be then saw Bacon fell between the waggons bid crowd, which hungered for details and and the tender cv the engine was passing ungazed with fascinated interest at the othdow der a bridge. Witnees thought the deco-lard caught the .side of the bridge He signalled, of the room where the bridegroom was sup- and the diaver stopped. posed to be lying. Tom Huntington, Witness funnel deceased unconscious in the who is twenty-seven years old, is one of fonr-foot, over which they had been travelthree brothers, who carry on business as ling He lino taken ill a naseenpr train to joiners, builders and undertakers. The Peniotone and 'thence to Sheffield and to the family is a most respectable one, high' Infirmary. hut died on the war. esteemed in the town, and great sympathy is The man on the lenoth of line in question for a driver of the train. :fan Williesn Swa ' hili said oeceased had been his firefelt for Mrs. Huntington, the widowed mother of the bridegroom, with whom the year. He could' not Say whether decoaeed latter had always lived, and who is in a want on the fonder. feeble state of health. The shock to Mrs. Questioned by Mr. Freeman, the witness Huntington was scarcely less severe than it said men were not auppeeed to go on the had been to the young bride, tops of the tenders whalat trains were in motion A