Widnes Examiner. — 1880-10-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

DESERATE AND A BAD WIFE. 1.....,—..—Fmnk Coriway and Jam. Don..ahne were P Ht._ AND charged with i• ••••• drnnk and 6ghtioo in Rank.street, on ' At the Warringtso Police Court on Wednesday morning . _.n. each tin, 5. and nom", , las.l, • - • man namedWiliiam Holden was brought op  before Alderman Davies charged with having e commit suicide on Saturday last. The Chief Constable (Mr. Hunt) mated that the prisoner was am engine tenter at the new wagon works, Martel Hoasebum, and for some time pest had been 'dying at 40, JohnsonetroW He was married about five months ago, and for the last ten weeks the prisoner and his wife had been living apart. On Saturday last, about quarter-past four o'clock, 1 the prisoner called at a shop kept by a person named Hatton, ' and having paid an account of Se. lid., left a basket Or the Amp eaylug that if he did not fetch at they must keep it ler hie eake. He afterwards went to the house of a Mn.. Potte, In Chienall'e card. whom he milted to fetch his wifo as he . wanted to eee her. Mrs. Potts declined to do as and immediately afterwards he pulled a bottle out of his pocket, and aaying here goes," drank the contents. Ile then threw the bottle on the floor, and cried out for his wife. , Constable Rowbottom was in Winwichetreet at the time, and hie attention was called L 3 the circumatanee. He int' mediately sent for medical aid, but none being procurable, conveyed the Primmer to the Dispensary, where he was MI tended by Or. Richmond. It appeared that the prisoner had ! bought at the shop of Mr. Kenyon, chemist, six pennyworth of laudanum, and had drunk nearly the whole of it. He (the Chief Constable) mid that the prisoner had been rendered desperate by the action of his wife, m they had lived very unhappily together. In answer to the magistrate the prisoner said he was sorry for what he did. alre. Holden, the wife of the prisoner, who was in court, , was called, and aid that ehe left him in comequence of his threatening to murder her. She stated that she dare not live with him. I The Chief Cunetable handed to the magistrates letter • received from the vicar of the parish, te the effect that the primner ens a steady and induetrions young man. ! Mrs. Holden waa then asked some further questione.which she annwered inn very frivolous tone, and assumed throughout a very careless demeanour. She acknowledged having been in different public-houses drinking with other men, but that she had been forced to it by the conduct ef her husband. Alderman Davies: It is the opinion of this Bench that you area had woman, mid you have brought about all this evil. Sire. Hoiden: I have Awe no such thing. Alderman Davies: And connected with your bad con-1 duct, I think your tongue has led in a great measure to i this. Mrs. Holden It t. my only privilege to use my tongue. Alderman Harju Such women as you are a curse to all ' men. hire. Holden: Thank you, sir. • Alderman Denim (addressing the prisoner): I am sorrel for you for many reasons. The Bench are inclined to he' hero that ,you have been aggravated by the conduct of your wife, and for that reason lam sorry for you. Al the same thne, I cannot recommend you to have anything 00 ,10 with such a woman. Ton will be bound over in the sum of £OO not to attempt to do such a thing Again.. WARRINGTON CoUNTY