Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-10-26 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

JAMES T. BRAITHWAITE. A Man Found in the Canal at  Audenshaw.  On Monday afternoou an illnest was held at the Sloe Pig Inn, Auenhhaw before Mr. J. F. Price, deputy coroner, on the body of the man found in it S. and I. Railway Company's Canal near A utien• ,haw Itri.,tro, on Friday forenoon. His name was not known when found ; but he ban since been . .  identified as James Walton, a navvy. The following evidence was Riven : Thomas Taylor, Vt. Manchester-road, Denton, hatter, said he Law the deceased, James Walton. Ile bud lived with wilneas two years. He used to go by the name of Raiford," and was a navvy on the railway. Ile was turned 59 years. He last saw Itint alive last Saturday Light seek at the Queen's Hotel, Levine. Ile .ent for witness, and told him his circumstances. He Paid he had been on the ••randy' again for a fortnight, end was bard np. Ile t..ked tsirnr MN lit tend him a sovereign, and he stayed at the home ate imamti that night, and bad dinner with hint on the Sunday. In the afternortn he went sways belle after two o'clock, and he did not tee him ogain ane il be came to identify the body. He woe all t ight when teller. He seemed all right on . tee Sunday referred to eseept that he was a Lit put shoat at being hard tip. He had never shown any signs Lf being deranged in h-s mind, nor had he ever tidemened at any time to do away nub himself -h jam man r He P 10.111.1 have been working bribe and R. Railway Company. Walter Coles, 14, Howard a Court, off Georgestreet, Ashton, said he was a hawker of salt. About n o'clock on Friday fon 110011 he was on Mattches. ler-road with a can anti home, He was going up the brow to cross the Audensbaw Bridge which vans the canal when he beard a strange noi, in the water. lie !mated over Hie wall and saw a per. ton tit toggling in elle et titer. As quickly as he could tue gent the reins from the bore , and with them Ire tan nitwit on to the tow limped h and threw one end of the reins to deceased. Ile never attempted to get hold of them. but could easily have dente -te if he bad wanted He (watesid managed tot get the reins round the shoulders of the man, and he dragged aim to the tow ingpath ads and palled Lien saint tie canal. He was not quite dead. Ile sent for a doctor, and in 'he mean Mee people passing in'earm : mot on ehe Irwin came down to when. decea,ed want They ditl what they could to resume •nimse ion moil the ,kgtor envie. He died just b3fore the (Metter arrived He nail bin brother were the first. loses him in the canal —A jetrynom t Hewes in that part .. • . ,  ;4.i:he-canal on the br4lsden side of the bridge. He (a itne.s) shouted to him, and he ducked his head tinder the wager when lie called. He did ii •everal times. lie cool I not hare been long in the rater, as his chitties were not all wet when he first now Idle. He thought he had not been over head then.—A juryman :He was quits conscious when he shouted in him. He sank under water several timee w iS he was trying to get Mtn out.—A jury. Audi : He thought be could smell drink when he pulled him out The coroner said that was all the evidence. The question was how the man had got into the canal ; whether he had tumbled in in a drunken state or whether he hal deliberately got in for the purpuee of committing suicide. There was no conclusive evi fence. . .  The jury reviewed the evidence and decided upon an open verdict of found drowned, but how the deceased had got into the water there wan no evidence to show.  THROAT IRRITATION AND Couou.—Sorenese and dry. neat, tickling and irritation, inducing cough and effect, ing the voioe. For these symptoms use Eppa's Glycerine Jujubes. In contact with the glands at the moment they are excited by the act of sucking, the Glycerine in these agreeable confections becomes actively healing. Sold only in boxes 7d., tins is. labelled " James Eppe & Co., Hommopathic Chemists, Loudon." Dr. George Moore, in his work on "Nose and Throat Diseases, says :" The Glycerine Jujubes prepared by James Epps and Co., are of undoubted service an a curative or palliative agent," while Dr. Gordon Holmes, Senior Physician to the Municipal Throat and Ei'd Infirmary, writes : "After an extended trial, I have found your Glycerine Jujubes of considerable benefit in filmost all forms of throat disease."  The Royal Laundresees eay Critchley 8 "STARCH 131,nas" is unequalled for imparting a beautiful finish to starched linen, itc. Mr—, Cornwell, says: "My wife will not finieh our linen without your 'Starch Gloss.'" It should be used in every house. Sold at Id, 3d., and 6d., by most starch-sellers. If not in stock will procure it. T. Critchley, Blackburn, Proprietor.—Advt. Goon News DM. THR SlCE.—Health re-stored and money saved. Send stauped-addressed envelope and state age, sex, and occupation, to