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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1894-08-25 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CLIFTON. of sleep. Men need on lei average eight hours of BowLs.—At a meeting of the Executive of the sleep in a day. A lymphatic temperament may require nine ; a nervolie temperament, six or seven. Yorkshire Amateur Bowling Association, held in the Pavilion, Fartown, Huddersfield, on Wednesday lymphatic man is sluggish, moves awl sleeps evening, Messrs. B Sutcliffe and J. Tomlinson slowly. But it nervous man acts quickly in every. ' thing. He does more in all hour than a sluggish troefdraeysenwteiduitheLCanlicfatoshnirCe.,ubm. B. ife . Frorthescuotuonlity m awls Man in two hours ; and so in his sleep. Every man te 0 represent must) sleep according to his temperament ; hub appointed referee, an i Messrs. S. Ramsden and sight hours is the average. Whoever by work, among oCuogo theS 00, players to pleasure, sorrow, or by any other cause, is regeie brly diminishing his sleep, is destroying his life, rfetosenntTobr,kawb ierre. e select MEXICAN CURE A man may hold out for a long time, but thisllwho is the only guaranteed Remedy for a those trash will come, and lie will (lie. The is a great suffer iron) the errois of youth, nervous weininess, exhausted JOSEPH 110LMES' Mexican Prescription, deal of int emperence be.ides that of tobacco, KNOWNkidarsieß: Opium, or brnwly. Mei' are dissipate.l wile Over- complaints, and stain stoodedetuhvee itueps et ftoer jtows.enateyle lyeeasrsit. embeendd, tax their systems all :lay, and undersleop every Vl:ladder, gravel, prosiate and kindred might. A man who dies of delirium treme IS its no and get fell particulars of Iles great remedy free of charge ury MaLions oiounisbury Square, London' Snore a d run [car,' aml a suicide than the n mister, IN hiratOmiere.—ti none wishing to have deaths the lawyer, the mei chant, the editor, or the rinter, Inseit..ol Li the Brighouse 4- liastriels Gazette will that works excessively all day, and sleeps bib litrag gresto oblige by either forwarding &funeral card all Walla or • written notioe to the Oa* ado%  1 Box Closes at 9 9 a.m  9 45  [lO 43  11 30  12 30p.m  I 30 3 15 5 15 6 30 7 15 7 45 8 43  5 20 „
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1894-05-26 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE INQUEST.  The inquest was held o'n Thu.rsday forenoon at Armytage Arms, before Nit% John 11: lwar 1 Hill (deputy•ooroner). The jury elected Mr, 3. Sutoliff, foreman. Inspector itann,n, P.S. Marshall, and P.C. Hoyle were also present. The jurors having view ,1 the body, EDWARD HIRST was tJe first witnasa ealled. lie stated on oath that be Was a joiner anti resided at Clifton. The deceased was his brother and was 62 years of age, and had followed the occupation of a loiner. His brother bad been somewliet depressed In his mind, and also somewhat unsteady' In his habits. He had been drinking for a tittF or•two last week, and was a little 'flat' as a natural consequenoe, Witness, bad never heard his _brother threaten to take his life. Witness was called to see the body at a quarter past one o'clopk on Wedoes• day afternoon. Ile had seen deneased an hour previous, when he appearei as usual. ‘Vhen witness found the body the deoeasei as hanging from a beam in the workshop, and had a pitiOa of window cord round his neck. The body was quite warm when found, but the hands were cold. HARRY HIRST stated he was the son of 'the last witness, and nephew-of the deoettaed. He last saw deceased alive on Wednesday noon in his father's workshop at Towngate. . His uncle was sharpening a saw, de told witness to go on after dinner, and take a rope and steps and go with him to Thorn. hills to help him with some work at s cottage there. Witness went into the snop at about a quarter past one o'clock, and found deceased hanging. He at once ran and informed his father. His uncle had not fastened the door, stni when hanging himself appeared to have stood on a saw stock, and then dropped off, HANNAH WHITELSY, wife of George Whiteley, farmer, Clifton, stated mat she bad assists i to lay out the body of deceased. The only mark on the body was one caused by atie rape round the neck. His neck was not broken, and he appeared to have died from strangulation. When witness saw deceased brfore be was out down, his feet were under him, and one hand on the saw stook.  This was all the evidence tenderel, and after a oiscussion the jury unanimously returned a verdict that Dsoeased had committed suicide whilbt of unsound mind.'  DkATIIS.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-08-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ELLAND.—On Saturday last at the Wellington inn, &Land, Mr. J. E. dill (deputyooroner) held an inquiry tato the death of rutin Barrett, woollen manufitotarer, who oommitteil suicide on Friday morning. Kr. Joe Psrk was foreman of the jury.—Biteabeth Barrett, the widow of the deoeand, stated that her husband was 50 years of ago, and was woollen manateeturer at Nulling. mills, &land, sal resided in Viotorie-rimii. tie had not been well. for a long time, having had no appetite for food for the last Melee months. Some months ago she called in Dr. Gamble, of Eiland, to see her husband, who was low-spirikid. The Jootor said the demented seemed to have no ailment about him, but was evidently suffering from trouble. Oa toe previous morning net Unsoiled went to the mill at semi o'clock. and came in to breakfast shortly after eight, at which time site was Outside Ine house. due stayed otitaide a few minutes, but on returning oould not see tier husband in the house. She noticed a quantity of Wood on tae house floor and on tue ueoeiteeti's ohair an open razor was lying. hue went out for assistance, and Mr. Eli Garnett and three or four °Mee men went into the house. der hasosaii bat never said gumming to her to indioate gnat he would iojura hiinself.—liii Gauen., wool ten waste dealer, Vio.oria- road, Slum', deposed that about 831) on Friday morning be 'Psi °stied to Mr. tisrrett's house, de went up stairs and looked into the bed-rooms, but oould see noining of toe deosinied. lie then went into the bittn-rootn, and found Barrett on bill hands and knees like • man gargling or vomiting. tie lifted him up, ant found twit a. aid a large wound on Ins nein, tne aurlinpe Davit's been severed. de sake 1 tne man wuat nu tied done mica a 'wag for, out there was no rayonse, lie Men sant tor Lir. Gamine, Out deem took pleat; immediately, and benne the dotstoed arrival.—in answer IA Mr. Mill, Mr. Ginned dada he had 'wooed that tie deceased as I latterly doomed to be depressed in mud, apparentiy 005 corning business matters, so tie was euntlnually complaining about bad trade.—l'ne jury returned verdict of attitude whilst iii state Of tenip*ary insanity."—Ene suicide is one of the ni%st traps Eaton nave taken place in tag 11usd district foe a tong time, and mull sysipatni isnispreliani fee tin widow, who Is left witit onsphild. flist astoented gentleman was Well 'mown and 400 esteemed taroagnutti the district, and watiiituisielsatientalied 'do one of tie Z4olloooloflnilli pima it 1,0111111, 111 the WWII! 1• • •  •--s ' • loi'vd`li:Ao-'!'""' or
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-12-22 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

WITNESS : NO.  Another JURYMAN said that he thought it was likely that he bad bad a little corioeity to look over the well. Perhaps hie hat bad blown over, and he bad accidentally Wien in while trying to get it.  . DamON BILL, resitting at lielfpritiny Can, Southowram, said be was a tomer a. brookfoot Mill. He and a man named Willie Grutninttt were dragging the river on Sunday. The eater had been partially drawn off, and Lai lowered about 16 inches during the niglit. He, witness, first saw the body, about 100 yaros below the mill, and just within the bouthowrans liberty. By Abe appearance of the body, he thought it had been in the water a few days. There were no marks of violence on it. He bad not seen the boy on the Wednesday morning at all. It was the manager who found the can and breakfast.—ln reply to questions, witness said he bad often seen boy 6 get on the wail at meal times to look at the river. It would be a very easy thing for a boy doing so to lose his balance. The wail bad a round top. The light reflected on the eater so that it would not be untidy dara at that time In he morning. lie Ray. W. DAVitt4PoitT said the reason he bad come down there was because there had been a great many evil repoitt about the lad. It bad been said that he had own tu itt ad *suicide. He had known him for a number ot years; ne was • choir boy in douthowram Choral), and be could not believe that he could do any non ihug. He had seen him only a short time efore his death. Ile was a very silent boy, and ticeptionally religious. He was very obedient, and be (mull no, conceive anytbirai more foreign to him as the idea of committing 'suicide. _ _  The jury retorned a verdict as follows: "Found drowawd, with no marks of violenoe on his body. Us bad ptobably been drowned by sooidentally falling Over the wall of the mill yard into the river."
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-06-02 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SAD DROWNING FATALITY AT ELLAND.  INQUEST AT THE STATION Horn,  On Thursday evening, Mr. W. Barstow held an inquiry at the Station Hotel, Knew!, into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Eliztbeth Barnett, widow, aged 70, of Church-street, Brighouse. The jury comprised the following : Messrs. J. ttamsden Crowther (foreman), Alfred Stuitb, Fergus Marsden, Joe Pars, liolroyd Beaumont, Jesse Cartridge, Joseph Carter, .•:quire li. Kitchen, James Ratcliffe, Wm. Oarside, John W. AJltroyd, and Joshua Bates.  The firsd witness called was THOMAS BARNETT, draper, of Cburou•street, Brighouse, who deposed that the last time he had seen toe decrased (who was his mother) alive was on Tuesday night about 9 o'clock, when she. seemed in her usual health. About 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning she called out at the ton of the stairs that she was going to his brother's, in Elland-road : he had not the least nason to think she had committed suicide.  1110 MAS FIELDING, ;sheerer, who is staying at the Model lodging house, halifax, aid that on Wednesday, whilst on the look out for a boat, and going down the path ircm the high toad to the lock, ntar Lord's refrdshment room, he saw the deceased lady near Ellaud Lower Lock on the towing patt' walking from the direction of Brighouse, he bet sight of her, and went and filled the look lore boat: on re! urnlug about 1-30 he found the deceased Elating in the canal, about 400 yards nearer &laud than where be first sew her, at a puce called cawson't Pool. lie obtained a boat hook from a passing boat and got the body out, life being tun totally extinct. ELIZA 1111LIAT, 16, Park Terrace, Mond, said she had laid out the body; there were no marks .of violence or injury. The jury returned a etraiot of "Found drowned, with no evidence to show bow or by what 01014.6 de oisisd pi into the waists*
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1882-03-18 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

JOHNNY'S CONIINDSWAL—" Mom," said little Johnny Perriwinkle the other day, addressing his maternal parent, "what does esthetic' mean? I heard Mrs. Mobby say yeeday that you was a disciple of their esthetic schooL"—"Rethetic, my son," said Mrs. Periwinkle, all the dished M. Periwinkle's red flannel shirt out ef the washboiler, "Is an extreme love of the beautiful; the too, too utterly intense allbutness of everything that is lovely. Oh " she exclaimed, clasping her hands rapturously, "how supremely divines the study of this noble science?" "Well, mom," said Johnny, "I've got a aesthetic conundrum far yer. What's the difference between this nut I'm holdin' in my hand and a A No. 1 salute from a William goat. Give'er up? Why one ia a butter-nut and the other is an utter butt. See?" Johnny studied "the science of the beautiful" in the woodshed—Detroit Free Free. Stamm UNDIES Tampomar Issorrv.—ln London, on Saturday, Mr. Collier held an inquest at the London Hospital, touching the death of John Russell, 49, a baker, of 1, Palmer-street, Stepney. For some years Peal the man had been very ill, and unable to 100- been bLard out of half but kept his spirits pretty - to despond, the business ite able to mimeo it. wife went doweftirs on the sofa very Hi, he said be had taken was burning his inside. ,de she found it contained 4 ginger bottle. Her husband —urea her he had taken it by accident, a statement he repeated within a short time of his death, and, as he had never threatened suicide, she fully believed It. It was shown however, that none of his medicines were kept in a bottle at all approaching the ginger,beer bottle's appearance, and the Jury decided that be had committed ertiqide while labouring under temporary insanity,  iiili)  hba  ti-iit  IC 1 A k Moans.-Vairtc±roacinntl. esettlntotTrZConnpeart, 414 cage. tTe7-g7tienliin *chanced ' cage, and there, snugly stowed. pd boxes waa a mouse an nit P.empting to remove the mouse the canary ivalrons fight foe the little animal. A eblt While the there the bird smstant singing all day, but since the m en removed the bird how -4 to warble.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1882-08-12 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DIRECTION.  Commenting upon the recent repeal of thg Aot reiaking to the burial of persons in• reference to whose P, death g verdict of Fele e, pe haa been returned V 4 , Times ,ht.",' from 'which we extract thifollo*; • In the course' of this' Mellon somethhogbaa been; done to abolish al, interesting fiction itithont Much" notice being taken q the "fact. Parliament hair* ••6 found time to pass a short Act which will virtually, put an end to a envious and venerable piece of absurdity. Coroners' Wien have hitherto been canstrained, in defiance of their oaths and in the teeth of fade, to find factitious verdicts in eases of edit-ides. , There Might be no reason to vinliPoke that the perion wtose' death was 'the subject or in:— vestigetion was really mit of, hXe mild at Ail-lineo when he idiot or droe him€ell. -The- mitten, „Might ' be perfectly clear, and the nine jury would have unhesitatingly found him aordpietent ed Make a will and generally reepenelble for hi attions • but, in order to elude a barbarous law, srepugoaneto most ,men's feelings, it was deemed right to resort to a picas , kind. The memory of a man guilty Of suicide fared —badly at the hands og ow ancestors. All his goods Wire fbrfeited to the crown. His widow azirchildren were rendered penniless, and the rights of his relatives ,were ignored. His . body sesta denied decent burial. , If all were done in teen the body ought to be ignominiously buried, with Si stake driven through it, hi a public cross road:"FrbM trine to time wtillave cut out the grusskr parts of Mil? savage•tlavi." Morer' • than. fifty years. age-bar6,l in a public 4lighway wits done away with. Btit the memory fk.f the old view of suicide was kept up in ths legal reqmr6plent that the body should be interred within twenty-four bourn from the finding of the inquisition, and that this Chotild be thine between nine and twelve o'clock at night. , We travel slowly in criminal legislation, and not until more than folty,,yearafifter!'eards did we ebolish the practice of robhmg widows 'ad orphans, for 'the pUfPose, of punishing husbands' and Where. Deddand's are also' thingsof the past. Coroners' juries are not in these days requiredsto assess the value of the waggon which crushed ,or the horse which kicked
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1882-04-01 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

CUTTINGS FROM—AitigitrU,AV"IrSI" 7 : It is said that a wn) re. ; tintre. one inch per hour, but be is klWa ' '...beyonsl the shovel when'poeoranttiali liit. r° 741 A lady who was a brunette happened to Maid one of them little itiCking.plaster prof they call silhonetlea. lllkeas the poettsfeefaunt whom the girl bl 4 never metro and quite irmocenttll".l.4 ma'am, Ildwayr.' how you had some Neel yoti so like yourself, you knew." " Yessir," said the marketman, "plenty of game on hand. What'll you bare ? " And thetgentleman replied : "Oh, I don't wish to purchase any now. I expect to go out hunting this afternoon. and I just thought I'd make sure there was some in the market, In case I didn't kill any." Bacon says: "Reading makes a full .man." That a:trust be the Heeding 'Ohara the. brewery is located. A printer should always marry a good type of girt.' A Massaehussetts man committea suicide by drinl. ing a pint of ink. If he had used the pale economical watery fluid' that is such a passion witja some of our contr%ntors, he might have drunk a gallon of it and . lived for fifty yeava He sat at her feet in quiet peace. He looked into her face and said softly: " Ah, dear, I could sit here for ever." "Could you, Ions?" answered she. "Yes. tweet." "You are right sure you could, darling?" F' I know it, my own." "Very well, then, you sit there for I have an engagement to go out with young Mr. Fitzpooner and won't be back this evening. Turn down the gm and fasten the nigjit-latch when you go away. Ta, ta, deer." And she went out, leaving him in the awful &gnu& of her goneness and his bitter disappointment., A New York clergyman, in a sermon on courtship and marriage, said he believed that "there is a mate for everyone if they will but wait till the right one comes along." The feiralle portion of his congregation Mho have passed two more years said they never beard such nonsense, and that the man didn't know (what he was talking about. If the right one doean't come along before a woman reaches forty the chances are,nine in tea that he is mowed under, or dead, or, worse still, has married the wrong Ifortian. ' g. - - - of the  • IgTSEINTRMI - rountira Bur tiounra.
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1882-02-25 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

TAXATION OT GO/D AID SILVIS PLATIA-.-At & meeting of the Goldrmithe end Silveremithe Free Trade Association, held 412, Pall Mall Bs* London, the Chairman, Mr. B. J., Watherston, said that it was a geenhly.reoelvel %Anton in the lobby of the Hones of Ocesmens that the, Gorernment will abolish the duties upon gold and sliver plate in April next. Much would depend upon the reecenmendation ot the Council of India, who had the matice now under consideration. , The Board of Trade might be expected to use their Influence, inasmuch ia no reform of the Hall-markiag laws could be prooseded 'With po_ Wag as the duties , were maintained, add dtz Chamb ',ern lied= Indicated his intention to proceed eel seek as soon as the state of publics badness map permit. HANn-Oacien TuFtre.—AcoOrding to a New York hand-organ maker, he puts the tunes into his mans according to the mlh.d. This year*" Chskity Bob" and "All on Account of Mica," fiom 2,goora„ we the ,ienclp,l,, favocßitea-__ %PM= banes areiu demand at Yew Waal' ana o.' New Orleans is the best market for organs. The Italians, however, have gone to work on railroads, al:o a plotutd men v. taking a band. ' ()TindMak "Is the htieft in the West. "Sweet Za" _"Only _sat, Armour Bte,hansassl}tf i e::." and odor. Malsa Boston. the other " from and Imo  liazakeY particularly,  Madapsi  any ,  Ravrasz or Yin lifftn&L.—The Berlin Convent of The Times say.: "Suicide Is assuming ,hat ensions here. Within the left thaa 28 persons lave taken giving an aver** or two —ono. 17 eases, seven falling vv at the reverse side o stql"r— gt ultickt_t_ at PFeetalt pensive  balm aid other  Commons 1. ain • of Money baronies of ta„ several • • Ire!, the memo* douritj in ... ,iind 1, r, .Ire \ Ittire) the o ..._2_• • _, Y.,(11 'ilik, fe fro n `" - /04.. "' biter lid., and ?atm Oteimeftht ,•- ', 41. 112,2, 11111114a0101fie -IP n tot Xr £ , 10e. ' . ••• 4a - "'" /40 13id ad:  Howe of .ellartat ..d that* I '4l 4r, **l to , rl . 4' , r en i
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1887-10-29 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SHOOTING A SWEETHEART.  ' At the Central Criminal' Court; ozi-Vuesday, Frederick Charles Mercer, i,was charged with shooting at Hannah Hickford Robertson, with iutent to murder., her, ;a'. with atteniMing, to, kill himself. From the evidence adduced it apfieared that the father of the prosecutrix carried on business as.a hairdresser, and the ..prisoner, while his assistant, became engaged to be piarried to the young wtenan. The 'fattier; hower4r, 'did not appioveof the match, and the (wise:ler. left and went to York for a short time. On his ieeira he renewed his COurtahi'p of the OA who II:el 1:-ft her 'father's house, and gone into a situation. One day the pri. soner called on her while his.wriein a state of intoxication, and, persuaded .her te -go to his mother:a house at 'Woolwich. On their-way in the train his condect was very straege, and lie talked about ,Buffalo Bill. He struck the girl with his fist, and shewed her a pistol. He said it was "to do the Buffalo Bill business with," and that it was a dummy. On arriving at his mother's house, he produced the pistol,again,,,aitt was flourishing it about in an upstairs thorn, when the mother wont to bring up her husband. "134fcite lite:ebulti get back again, she heard three shots fired. As to what took place when the ;nether, ieft the,eettm the evidence was conflicting. A sister of ti.eprireters.wore that he said, "Now, Hannah, lam going to shoot Buffalo Bill," arid' the shots were itiniedratelSe flied— two hitting the prosecutrix and the other the 'prisoner. The prosecutrix, however, denies that anything was said. Both-the prosecutrix And .the prisoner were for some time under medical treatment. The defence was that it was a case of misadventure; that the prisoner thought the pistol wits a." dummy," as he had told the girl it was. On the other hand a letter was found on him, which the prosecution oontended clearly proved the intent iou of the prisoner to murder the girl and conunit suicide. The letter said : "My dearest friends,—l wi:•11 you all guod-bye. I am only sorry I had not that ma's Robertson. Hannah's father. as I would have served hire the same. Bury me in the same grave as Hannah.", ~The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was to 12 months' i ,eenteueed mprisonment.