Widnes Examiner. — 1883-01-13 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

BUILDING ON EXPECTATIONS.  At the St. Helens County Court, on Wednesday, Henry Morecroft, of Parr Moss, whose name is familiar in St. Helens as that of the hero of a long and eventful litigation, in connection with the common rights of Parr Moss and the enclosure of the Moss by Mr. Evans, -the reputed lord of the manor of Parr, was defendant in an action whereby Luke ,Kirkham, joiner, St. Helens, sought to. recover from. him for work done in repairing certain property belonging to him at Kirkby.—Mr. Massey, who appeared for the plaintiff, said he understood the defendant was working, and had three sons wl:o lived with him, were in full work, and contributed to the support of the family. Moreover, the defendant was at the present time receiving the rents of the property which the plaintiff had repaired. Ire had also been plaintiff in the great action of Morecroft v. Evans, which had been tried in the Chancery of Lancaster, and was now being carried by him t.. the Court of Appeal. That action was one involving a large suns of money, and by it Morecroft claimed a considerable property at Parr. The judgment of Vice-Chancellor Bristowe had gone against him, and he was now carrying the case to a higher court. Therefore he (Mr. Massey) submitted it was evident that if defendant could find funds to carry on the litigation referred to he could not but be in a position to pay the small sum claimed by the plaintiff Kirkham.—Evidence having been given in support of the claim, Mrs. Morecroft, who appeared on behalf of her husband, stated that defendant had not worked for three years, and at the present time he was at home ill and unable to leave the house. He had not sixpence of his own, but was entirely dependent upon what his children 'chose to give him. The law proceedings to which Mr. Massey had referred were being carried on by friends, and as to the property at Kirkby in question, in the present case the rents were received by a Mr Dutton, and defendant would not receive any money from them for three years.— His Honour : What can you pay ? Mrs. Morecroft replied that defendant could pay nothing. He had other debts, but they were due to gentlemen who knew how he had been robbed, and therefore did not press for payment., He had been dreadfully ill used, but if he got the property which was the subject of the appeal he would pay everything he owed. He had given a bill of sale for law costs amounting to £2,700, but witness was unable to produce the document as it had been sent up to the Court of Appeal.--ffis Honour made an order for the amount claimed and costs payable by instalments of is per month.  On Thursday, a man named James Arnold, brother of the landlord, committed suicide in the Dane Mill Tavern at Ilicester. The man, it appears, had been away for a few weeks, and returning on Thursday, went into the house and shot himself with a revolver, death being instantaneous. The affair caused a great sensation in the neighbourhood. _ _ _  Mr. Thomss.,Brosklehurst, a colliery proprietor of Deane, near Bolton, was, on Thursday morning, fined 20s and costs by the Bolton magistrates, for having in Use at one of his coalyards a pair of scales 71b3. against the purchaser. - It It was proved that the yard was in charge of a servant, and that the Corporation inspector had had an opportunity of adjusting the scale% The dead body of a woman, shockingly m tile ad, wPa found, on Thursday, in a field at Tullyvan, near Dungannon. The body was nearly naked, and a terrible struggTe had evidently taken place, nearly all the woman's bait having been torn away. A later telegram states that a, farmer, named Lamb, has been arrested, who it is suppozed committed the murder on his return from Aughnarchy market, on Wednesday night. The woman had obtained a decree at the Quarter Sessions, on Monday, for £l6 wages due by Lamb. A statement is current in Galway, and is gaining credence amongst the superstitions, that the ghost of Myles Joyce, the man who declared his innocence of participation in the Maamtrasna massacre on the scaffold, last month, is seen nightly around and within the prison of Galway. Two soldiers, it is said, were guard outside the gaol a night or two ago by TL a while T 9 e mysterious figure that laid hold of their visitedbwhtaolnl matron and warders have, it is further said, applied for a rangier. • Tinto 11 IttnrrATlON.—Soreness and dryness, tickling and witation,inducing cough and affecting the 'voice. For these symptoms use Epps's Glycerine Jujubes. 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