Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-06-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

GIRLS  AT ASEITON.  APPREHENSION OF TiiE ACCUSED AT  Lo*-DoN:  At the Ashton Police Court, on Monday (before J. F. Knott, G. H. Mellor, and .1. Moss, Esqrs.,) two young women named respectively Mary Cummings and Mary Morgan, were brought up charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, Mr. Dalgliesh, chief constable. said the prisoners were domestic servants. They were both out of situations, and they went to lodge with John Walsh, in Wellington-street, on the 25th ult. 'Walsh and his wife went to London, leaving the priseners in charge of the house, which, on their return, was found to have been stripped of nearly all the wearing apparel in it. The articles taken away were worth about £2O. In consequence of information which woo received from Alderehot be communicated with the police at London, where he and Holland went on Saturday night and apprehended the prisoners, who had only been broutht to Atlton that morning. The Chief Cunstaole added that he wished ter a remand to enable him to go into the cane and to recover other portions the etolen property. He enumerated tee following attielesll4 tO so which had been already recovered: A blue silk drempitee, o e suit of black cloth, one dark tweed suit, one nuriped shirt, one woollen shirt, one muffler, one large family bible, one Large elatik clots jacket, on, plait shawl, one clots vest ' one lines vests 12 cotton and linen towels, 12 'ew cares, two ,I:hiren's white pinafores, three mister eases, one linen sheet, and one lady's dark I grey waterproof cloak. J ,hu.Nalsh WO then called, and identifi,d some of the stolot property. He said it was Horgan only who was lodging in his house, and that the other prisoner lived near. Jonathan Ibboome, pawnbroker, Om !Minh street, deposed te the prisoners pawning articles of clothing with him. _ _  Thol wee all tbn evafence effer,d, aad the primama were reonueled for a we...  SUICIDE AT .‘EWToN HE %TR.  fin inquest wee held at the house of Mr. Slab &melon, Three Crowns Ine, Newton Heath, on Heyday, on the body of Henry Dawson, 7, Jun:street, Newton Heath, before Sir. Price, woe., the refl.:wing evidence was adduced:— Ann Dawson said the deceased we. her Limliknd. He was 54 )ears of age, cud w4s ..,aurer at the II de. Platting Machine Woike, Fr the E.st, three weeks h« had been very much addicted to intend. catiug liquors, and had beat emu Iran lii work on thet eccount for a mouth. Lrst week he was discharged for this neglect, and this seemed to may upon his mind very much. On Fr:day night about ten o'clock, she went to bed leaving him lying on the Hifi:. Oa Saturday morning, between five and six o'cicok, she got up to go to clean the offices at Ten Acre-lanelMill, and left him in bed alright, but on her return, just before eight o'clock ' she found him hung on a rope tied to a wooden partition close to the door. Site screamed out and her son, who was in bed, ran downstairs in his shirt, and with the assist/lace of Matthew Booth cut him down, but though he was :quite worm he was dead. _ _  Matthew Booth, a labourer for the Local Board, corroborated the above facts, and said he had informcl the police. He had know a the deceased seven or eight years. He had 'oft-en seen him the worse for drink, he last time he saw him alive was on Friday morning, when he asked Wm to pay for • pint ef beer, which he refused to do. klo seemed alright then.  A verdict of "Temporary insanity, induced by excessive drinking," waa returned.  Tbie paper may be had every Saturday morniug at No. 15 Lanceehire-etreet, Oldhamroads Newton Heath.