The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-07-17 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT CLIPTON.--""", afternoon, an inquest was held at the InfirPO4,:, Poo Mr. W. Barstow, coroner, and ajery, of who 'ol9o,e' ' Inman was the foreman, touching the o', re 45, f'„ attending the death of Marsden Parkin, age° .tati't drawer, of Clifton, who died at the above Instldece4 Saturday night.—Mary Parkin, wife of the hnsaloi stated that she was present at the time of her toll' al death, which took place at that Infirmary, about d ØJ eleven on Saturday night. Between eight alit to? o'clock on the morning of the let inst., he closet. One of her daughters went across the 1,1,1 time afterwards, and returned screaming. Tbesaol'A had been drinking heavily for ten days Preote;lrti Benjamin Thomas Marshall, draper's assistant, seep' whilst on a visit to his parents at Clifton. hot' Dert4 and nine o'clock on the morning of the Ist inst'he el the alarm raised by the deceased's dartahter, he went to the closet near the deceased's housei; deceased, who was in a sitting posture, %vitt, 1,1071 across the throat about four inches long, Jriiiht blood was flowing copiously. A razar covered B,at`;, was on the floor, and a case on the seat. Aerill :;(41 sent for, and the wound was dressed. Mr. '%',lai:yeej geon at the Infirmary, said the deceased was the Bth inst., suffering from a severe cut i° and in a very weak and exhausted conditieTiaf,ast'°r, for about 30 hours after his admission, and sank until Saturday night, when bodied frota e%talf resulting from the injury inflicted to his the'aa , „tad • diet to the effect that the deceased died" p i11:03t tion, resulting from a wound on the throa,t are r,t himself, when in am unsound state of mina' ept frr by excessive drinking, was recorded, n littlfere RAILWAY FATALITY AT Brtionousia.---kng, held at the Infirmary, on Saturday morei atou,:ire W. Barstow, coroner, touching the death if(' orasa: oitanrr, ton, an employo of the Lancashire and '0 aga'ay, way Company, at Brighouse Station, 01.1jair5"r-„110/11e;34 fatal accident at that place the previouo The `,ieoella, Joseph Dobson was foreman of the jury- 03 of "cog evidence was adduced :—James Claytoo.,!e aoilcad, stated that his father was 45 years of a'',.;ods-Jcaiotio ployed as a "shunter,' at the Btighouse„;l3s, eea_eJ nt had been so employed for about six roc;:a with oc 'c'e which he was a labourer. Witness liv'fter the :%ighottli at Clifton, and did not see him islile:toe, 3t,,lledaes,sg until Ftiday.—John Joyce, goods insPe,, on 1-1 sin i° Railway Station, said that at 12-55 P*, gon ofl last, the deceased was drawing "Lgn t it%Plidaeona with a horse, and having got the 170 hors° jot, Siss he called the horse to " stop." chain strild turned into the yard, keeping theeff. Deceaaeo, hinlng deceased was unable to hook it waggon, tileeloPhia the chain was pushing him to the event the oof .00 down into the four-foot to try to rr el entight.fe,,, nod over him, when the waggon Ineee, hia 'aft isi;bauldefotts tO boots, and in struggling to geltness pat bils,chect'o.aes° got under the same wheel. rtuhennwinagggoonv,eranhdimth.—nslnprervepeo:ytV:etdeotbfoerse:,:tothset:ol::: , the inrY'clan " t° said it was a common practicd jaaa caoaaa- 40 hold of the horse's head, an estendinkez op is the waggon, but deoeased to was_ wag ho±rani horse and waggon. The hors: doode; occurar'"oo the draw bar of the waggon, the acci t th° Baia the middle of the four-foot when.wpactor _aideat alogna Witness had been nine years vir,imilar eon, gem, °op plaan,:and there had not been ani, very ge..„oley, g that period. Deceased vl3the :ork--"J°" 7aid extremely attentive to his the cotapart.9_,:in ca his,.ftee guard, in the enanlo9 'aapeared3rThis war,ho thing he saw of deceasedepnnLy rNo. to deceal'ideatilc arm an and a sitn.._.n.t tbes, in the four-foot of the i.d.l Teo went Doing e se co the accident had haPPenea d to iltid( .e) I°l been run over by' 3 Wagthe decease hor- i‘oroe ing - k (t" ana attached. When brin,F.c„oor old ac rnisr/ was bleeding from the leg g,ld taorrn' Web a Ilerafieldri he (deceased) said, r r him-"—Mr• ja°"tol3 the Inn Wed' turned too sharp about 'half-past "suffering from a fracturee dolec; 'wclaosckndomoitttebu° :erne, vPie°'l%tie f frt/i6": ture of the loft rm snuersgdeaoyn cl •ed _boat hantiiit'ing froreDqui ricer, left thigh. Decease expir hea , shoca r s iotion• ocas the following night, from t Ury, after a short "nsti` asad the dece • led ; • if,g injuries.—The _hat d tipg the follovring verdict : truck en-v shnornplart4; dently run over by a railwea that it eattea' asafteidrnodoeneen, jury are also strongly of 0111"„ ca ouge,,er to gons at railway stations tyr° anolP one to attend to the h°rse'l  the wagon"