The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-10-15 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-Win. xingtoin (%), 3, Park-view, CU:Ley-4.11n% was charged on remand with attempting to commit fillicick by inhi.ling qoamity of gas, on Oct. 30b. He laol boil Loser remand fbr a week for Dr. Freack of Tranmere Infirmar, to hre Lim under observation, WA the docijn. said be considered the accused was tow ijuitecapable ef 11/eking alter himself. lie :flare realised the serloommea of what he Had done. He ltold witness he woo in a depress(' coadition thrtaigh being out of werk.--Neaner: I &dint know what I was doing. l'a I very sorry.—ln amswer to the Otairmaa, he admitted there had been " Amstrad:en between him and a woroan."—After being reprimanded, the prisoner was meiorgoi on preananaig tot to do stylizing of kind affuln•  Hreii7-"YMRobert. Lbws* Bakl, builder's laboterer, Southport, oppeered after a month's adjenrament charged with non-payment of 249 17-. 6d. afliikution arreara doe to thanehe i both Inane, aeso IS. costs. Mr. Roberts (Messrs. liteghes and Roberta) appealed for eomPlainont, and it was shown that ,inete the adjournment, which waB allowed 'for defendant bi) tati a promise to pay 21 per week towards eharing off the as rears, he had paid nothing. .i.kieuriaat 'said he had no adtims to -thick to .ga the money, but complatinent said he and his mother knew her whisks very well. Dellinderot further said he had .ti with him now to pay.—The order or4ina'lly I made was for as. 6d. per week, and with' cation was now made for an Mt:raved 'amount. as complainant, who wo,, lirmg with her mother. was only able to ear". 6s. 3d. per week.—The order Wadi invress-d to 7s. per week, and the ease further adjourned tor a month. .defendant plying £4 down, and undertaking to pay per week from now eio..  EEG= CHILDREN TO Kbia—A young man named Alfred Pierce, latught up on warrant, was charged with non-.ment or £3 19e. affiliation arrears tae io Florence Jones. It was proved by Mr. T. Owen. Magistrates' Clerk's department. that the order was made on Apra isth.— Defendant I have been out of acri ier a month owing to the death of my nalar.— The Chairman Sorely it does nut t3a you a month to mourn the death ci ton father P—Defenclant said he w.and had eight children to kePp. la arc.wer to the Bench. he admitted that he making nearly .1:3 a week befare the outer was made.—The Bench adourned tlocase for a month, the arrears fo he raid off by that time. " WICKka) HEST tfl'i TWA" AT TUB PARlE.—Vineent Murphy 4161 and Robert (16). ot Chvelaml-street, were manumitted for wilfully damagiag falling; iti Birkenhead Park. They pleaded ga.— Eridence given allowed that ou the :th inst. a parkkeeper faa- the, lads throwing stones at the spiked heads ot the railinp enclosing the Park, .ind saw one had knocked oft. He chased the defoularta. toed P.C. Render (8131 weitir Ellis. The keeper sent "A terrilie lot of theaspilow get Imooked off." RepairMg ;he tr..;whief meant making a whole new rail. a.. it was cast iron.—The Chairman told the bele they ought to be ashamed of thent,lver. "It a wicked distructioc," he aid.—larlt defendant was fined 20e., including &Imago. Ellie admitted he was Earning 325. a week.