The Haslingden Gazette. — 1903-03-07 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

ESDAY.—Before the Mayor (Alarm: flrughton in the chair, Mr. Richard Ra,lll, and Mr. Edwin Welch.  Aliscellaneous.—Patriek Horan, of Wellingt street, was fined 10s. arid oasts for using 0b.,,,,, language to Mm. Mary Ellen Cassidy. with wit. or Jo' had formerly lodged.—Thomas Kennedy. Her.• Court, was fined 54. and costs for drurikennes• Robert Nuttall-atreet, and Robert Turner. .1..  _ . worth-street, was similarly fined for a like offeloo An Old Hand.—Moses Mills, no fixed abnde. as, charged on remand with stealing two pairs 01 bri,tt Aorduroy trousers and a pair of boots, the loco of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Coml., . The evidence went to prove that the articles a., takea from the platform at Preston railway ston oo while in transit from Hebden Bridge to Perishot Kendal to Newark respectively. Prisoner hroon, o them to Accrington. aud asked a weaver nano oi Watson to pawn them. He pawned the boot, or Greenhalgh's for 55.. but when he offered nos trousers in pledge the assistant. Mr. Metcalf, ',CAMP auspicious and sent for the police.—Prienno, was sent to hard labour for three months in CO ease, and Watson was censured for his part in lb.. ! trans:lotion, and the Mayor said the Bench has come to the cenclusion that they would mot all him bin expenses.  AN ACCRINGTON COUPLE RECONCILED A joiner and builder, named George Parker, I. siding at Friar Hill, Accrington. was summoned I,y his wife, Nanny, for maintenance. The complain ant WWI represented by Mr. R. Kidd Whitaker, and Mr. A. E. Britelitfe appeared for the defendant.— Mr. Whitaker stated that both the parties had Inn married before, and the complainant WO Ii irig in a house at Friar Hill of which she sras the tenant for life. The defendant proposed to het and was accepted, and the parties—who were middle-aged—were married in Juue. Ina Refers they were married Mrs. Parker told her husband that her health was not as good as it used to Is whioh was on account of the unfortunate ileari, ! her previous husband, who committed ' • I hanging, and that she had undergone trio for ,a.ttuiloaut she :; r.,uld require Under, these elc, .0 umslarif which would not be necessary for yoturger 0 However, the defendant persuaded her 11, . • thing would be all right, arid they were is • Defendant owned three cottages and Mr, l' also owned a house in Listerstreet, and f• : - • time the parties lived happily together. T!, fendant began to neglect the house. and • drink than was good for him. This tool such an extent that Mrs. Parker was leave him, hence the present application. plainant, in the course of her evidence, sta•, she was tenant for life of the house at Fr,,, H and also 0911.11 a house in Lister-street, fr.,. she had an income of So. per week. Defend. had some cottages, which brought him iii week. Ni that they were able to live 04.11, He ciould, however. earn from 255. to 30, when be cared to do or. Unfortunately. , menced to drink, and for four weeks did n• • tribute a ',cony towards the house, and • obliged to leave him. She gave the defend, • understand before they were married that :11.. riot strong, as alio received a great shock when n,.• former husband committed suicide.—ln Cr examination by Mr. Britcliffe, the complainant OF trotted ehat on one occasion she knocked a ba-ra tin the floor because the defendant said he was go:1,, to make his men tea after she had get it reti.,' She never told her husband she would poison water he had to use. There was plenty of food ,• the house, also baking materials, but defondaii! told Inc she a-as iii it fit to eat after. -She had:Awl £5O insurance policy in the fire beoause 5v time Weeks in arrears. She also put club book', the fire.—Defenclant denied the allegations of Wife, and said there was T.O reason why she .• •: • not kill ti cock chicken if she required nourishm. • He had offered her money on many occasions. • she would not accept it on account of her In ! At en e time she gave veal pie to the dog. arid ; • EiMie pork. fLaughter.)—After hearing evidence, the magistrates expressed the op, • the parties should endeavour to come to son •  eta nth g. Ishii was acted upon by the and at a later time they announced that a: mint had been arrived at.  RANNIE OINTMENT 1!  A . For