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Widnes Examiner. — 1890-09-06 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

POLICE CELL.  On Saturday, at the Newton-le-Willows Town hail, before Messrs. W. F. Gooch and T. V. Mitchell, •Arthur Armfield and his wife Lillie, described as theatrical artistes, were charged on remand with stealing two tin trunks and a quantity of wearing apparel, altogether of the value of about .£7, the property of an actress named Mildred Cohen, of 42, Thompson-st., Liverpool. It appeared that the prisoners and the prosecutrix were members of a company which occupied the boards of the Alexandra Theatre, Earlestown, in the preceding week, and lodged together at tha house of a Mrs. Waddilove, in Booth-st., Earlestown. Last Saturday week prosecutrix journeyed to Liverpool and left the trunks containing the apparel in care of the landlady. The female prisoner subsequently informed the landlady that she was to take the boxes, and accordingly she and her husband departed with them. The female 'had informed Mrs. Waddilove that a letter addressed to them at the Bootle Post Office would find thorn, but when the prosecutrix returned on the Monday and informed the police about the matter it was ascertained that they had booked to Manchester. Poilce-constable Bowes, of Earlestown, followed them, and after visiting several theatres and places of amusement, arrested them in the upper circle of St. James's Theatre. They were conveyed to Newton-le-Willows, and on Tuesday they were formally remanded until the following Saturday on a charge of stealing the trunks and the clothing. Evidence was given at cpasiderable length on Saturday, and the prosecutrix, in reply to the male prisoner, said she did not make any charge against him. In reply to a question by the wife, she admitted having lent some of the articles to the female prisoner. A second charte of attempting to commit suicide was then brought against the female prisoner. After the remand of 'the prisoners they were placed in separate cells at the Police Station. Police-Constable Bowes subsequently saw the female prisoner lying unconscious in her cell, and having an appearance of being almost suffocated. Ile found that she had torn a portion of her clothing into shreds, and these she had tied tightly round her neck three or four times. The strings were cut and she recovered consciousness. She afterwards said, "Why didn't you let me do it? I would rather die than bear this disgrace." The bench dismis.sed the charge against the husband, and ha was liberated, while his wife was committed to prison for fourteen days for the theft, and was committed for trial at the sessions on the charge of attempting to commit suicide.  A telegram from San Francisco states that Sister Rose Gertrude is about to relinquish her self-imposed work among the lepers of Molokai. A FAIR BEATJTTFOL SKlN.—Sulpholine Rap gives the natural tint and peach-like Bloom of a perfect complexion ; makes the Skin smooth, supple. healthy, comfortable. 65. Tablets. Bverymbere.—ildrt. Prospecting operatioss in connection with the scheme for constructing a bridge over tile English Channel are now being conducted off Folkestone. To °venoms
Widnes Examiner. — 1890-10-25 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ODDERLLOWS ALERTING AT WARRINGTON. The twenty-ninth anniversary of the Loyal Garibaldi Lodge, National Independent Order of Oddfellows, was celebrated on Saturday by a dinner at Host Wm. Warburton's, Little Horse-shoe Inn, when 56 members and friends attended. After dinner. P. G. John Hughes was appointed chairman, and P. P.G.M. James Smith. vice-chairman. The chairman proposed the usual loyal and patriotic toasts and "Success to the National Independent Oider. of Oddfellows." P.P.G.M. Jos. Hands responded, and Bro. T. Dickenson, jun., enlivened the proceedings with a song. The Vice-Chairman gave " Success to the Loyal Garibaldi Lodge." Secretary E.Kenwright responded, and said the lodge was in a prosperous condition, being worth over .£4 per head for every member. They had invested with the Corporation £3OO, and had a banking account of .£124 last June, in addition to a share in the District Funeral Fund. To give an insight of the good done with regard to sick and dectased members and members' wives, he stated that they had received for sick and funeral fund alone since January, 1880, over £l,lOO. They had paid to sick members £7OO, and for the funeral allowance of deceased members and members' wives £2OO, besides paying for general management and helping to assist distressed members. It was the wish of the officers of the lodge to impress upon the members the fact that the more they increased in numbers the greater would be the increase of the funds. Two new members had been made, and there were ten propositions for new members. The Chairman next gave 'The Juvenile Society," and said he hoped that every member would try to make it a success. P.G. J. T. Wilson proposed "Kindred Societies," and said he hoped that all societies were working for the good of the community. The rest of the evening was spent in an enjoyable manner.  An errand boy named William Williams, thirteen years of age, committed suicide at Chester, on Wednesday, by hanging himself to a beam. At Manchester, on Wednesday, Ellen Evans, wife of a. machinist, was remanded on a charge of attempting to murder her child by tying a tape round its neck. Two Welsh ladies are reported to have recently been the victims of an extraordinary outrage at the hands of Italian soldiers while sojourning for a night at the Mount St. Bernard Monastery.
Widnes Examiner. — 1890-08-30 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRADFORD.  Late on Saturday particulars of a dreadful tragedy at Lingbob Wilsden, a small village near Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, became known. The victim was the wife of a man name Hezekiah Sutcliffe, quarryman, and after the deed Sutcliffe went and committed suicide by drowning in a mill dam near his home. The details to hand show that the couple have only resided in Wilsden for some nine months, previously having resided at Egypt. in Thornton, near Bradford. On Friday night the couple went shopping to Thornton Heights, and seemed on friendly terms; but at 11-30 o'clock on the same evening the children went to bed i leaving their parents quarrelling. When the children awakened next morning, shortly after eight o'clock, they gave information to the neighbours that their mother was dead in bed. About half ,an hour previous some men had noticed a body in the mill dam, at Birk's Head. The dam is four feet deep with water, and the man's head was firmly embedded in the mud at the bottom, with his legs sticking out of the water. On being recovered it was identified as that of Sutcliffe. The woman appears to have been strangled, ' there being marks on the throat of a thumb and fingers. They leave six children, two of the eldest residing away from home. The woman is given an excellent character by the people in the district. At the inquest, on Monday, on the body of Hezekiah Sutcliffe, the jury found that Sutcliffe murdered his wife and afterwards committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.  The Home Secretary has remitted the capital sentence recently passed on an old man named Macdonald for the murder of his wife and a lodger at Ayr. A. FAIR BEAUTIFUL Stmr.--Sulpholine Soap gives the natural tint and peach-like Bloom of a perfect complexion ; , makes the Skin smooth, supple. healthy, comfortable. Bd. Tablets. Everywhere. —Advt. The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, whom her Majesty recently pardoned for acts of hostility towards England, is stated to have taken a villa at Folkestone. To
Widnes Examiner. — 1890-12-06 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

STEWART ,PARWII,L. As for Mr. GLADSTONE, he comes out a the, encounter with hands thatl were always c'aian,, -wearing as ever "the wEte flower Of a blameless life," the revered of his countrymen, the beloved; eaf his party, the Grand Old; Man. But what, it is being asked, is to be the. end of this disturbance and, disruption? The-abandon. meat of the Hornaß'.ule cause ? Not =Or -a.inoment. It has been said a, hundred times that the agitation would go On even. if Mr. GLAWTONR, were to. be removed; and it must go on,. if need be, with Mr. PA%NilliD, as the draff, on the wheel. The immorality, or political suicide), of an individual is as nothing to the interests: of a nation. The Liberals have taken up the, carte of Home Rule because they believe that it will be just to Ireland and beneficial to England.. Ireland blocks the way, and there is no going round, no escaping the block, however much the. difficulties of its removal may be increased. We may for a time lose elections, as elections lisate already been lost in Manchester and Warrington; but the loss of elections cannot, in the long run, be so disastrous —to put it on the lowest ground—as the loss or desertion of principle. We must think, too, of the gallant body of Irishmen, who are giving their feelings a wrench in sacrificing Mr. PARNELL with the object of saving the cause. Ties of the strongest kind bind many of them to their late leader; but the ties which bind them to their country and their countrymen are stronger, and they are to be honoured and upheld in the part they are taking. They have behind them, and will continue to have behind them, the majority of the people of Ireland, while Mr. PARNELL will be left to pursue a guerilla warfare with mal-contents and in s.chief-rnalrers. It would be a fitting punishment that he who has even stood aloof from the Plan of Campaign should be driven to rely for support upon the conspirators: and ne'er-do-weels who have been the bane of every movement for the redemption of Ireland. Bat, come what may, "forward "is the word. Home Rule for Ireland is but the precursor of Home Rule all round. Each of the four nations of which the United Kingdom is composed is suffering because of the incapacity of the Imperial Parliament to deal efficiently with domestic as well as Imperial affairs. There are a score of reforms of which the country stands sorely in need, but they cannot be secured in the deadlock which it is the delight of a Tory Government to maintain. The land of promise is before us; there must be no turning back because Mr. PARNELt can no longer be trusted as the leader of the Irish people.  The Eight IT is pretty generally conceded Hours by advanced politicians, that a Question, good case has been made out for Parliamentary restriction of the work of miners  , I   •  741  I . , „
Widnes Examiner. — 1890-10-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

INQUEST. -THE FATHER CHNSITHED!  Mr. Brighouse held an inquest at the Griffin Hotel, reasley Cross, on Thursday morning on the body of the deceased. James Makin, the father, a chemical labourer, of 50, Sutton-st. said the deceased acted as his housekeeper, his wife having been dead ten years. On the 18th of September he had scolded his daughter for baking cakes for some of her companions. He then ordered her to take two of her younger sisters to school, and to hurry back. She took the children to school, and he had not seen her alive afterwards. The Coroner ; Did you know that your daughter had threatened several times during the last month to commit [ suicide? Witness No, I did not. I had no idea that she had wished she were dead. Mary M'Namara, 14, said about a month ago Makin wanted her to drown herself with her in the delph, but she persuaded her away. At another time the deceased was going to drown herself in Roughdale's pottery delph, but she again got her away. It transpired that the police on several occasions had been attracted to the house when he was beating his children, but they always found the door bolted. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while temporarily insane, but did not say what had produced the insanity. The Coroner called the father into the room and censured him. He told him that he was strongly of opinion that the girl had drowned herself through the father's misconduct. He (the coroner) was perfectly satisfied that the father had not behaved as he ought to have done. Children had delicate organisations,and could not bear to be threatened and ill-treated. It was a terrible state of affairs, and if one of his children took away her life under similar circumstances he felt that he should never forgive himself. Makin had several other children to bring up, and he hoped he would do better towards them than he had done to that one.  A telegraphic !operator at Lehig IV, on, Pennsylvania, has been arrested on the charge of having caused, by negligence, an accident on the Central New Jersey Railway, in which three men were killed. He failed to deliver an order to stop the train.  PIMPLES, BLACK HEADS, AND  SUDDEN FLUSHES AND HEAT  To the face are often due to Debilitating Occupations and Habits. All men seeking relief from such a condition of things should write to-day to 31essrs. WILKINseN Co.. Fitzallau Square, Sheffield. Write to-day.
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-06-11 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ALLEGED SEDUCER AND HIS CREOLE VICTIEL.— A sorrowful-looking young woman of interesting appearance, who it was stated was a Creole named Mary Fernandez, was brought up under peculiar circumstances.--The Inspector of Police stated that about a fortnight ago the defendant tried to take away her life by drinking oxalic acid. She afterwards became very ill, and had only just recovered sufficiently to attea4 court. He understood that the poor girl was a domestic servant out of place, and she had surrendered that morning to the charge of attempting to commit suicide. She had expressed her sorrow for trying to take her life, and there was no desire to press the ease on the part of the police.—A kind-hearted woman who had taken the defendant to her home, and acted the part of a good Samaritan to her, said that she had been betrayed by her lover, and was now with cbild.—Mr. Lewin, deputy magistrates' clerk, said he hoped defendant would come to a determination not to kill herself for the sake of any man. He also advised her to take out a summons for the purpose of proving the paternity of the child as soon as it was born.—The Bench discharged (he prisoner, on the woman promising to take . defendant into her care, until some way wts sten out of her , present troubles.  _ sulinev. On this morning, the Rev. Canon Barclay preached an appropriate sermon at the Parish Church, from the text : "I indeed, baptise you with water; but one mightier than I cometb, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. He shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." (Luke iii., 16.) The usual camp meetings, which have proved so popular in previous years, were held on Runcorn Hill, by the Primitive Methodists. The members of the Salvation Army were found, to use the words of one of their popular tunes, to be "marching along." They issued special placards stating that their meetings would be addressed by the Black Prince, a somewhat corpulent Yorkishireman, who, we understand, obtained this title not, as many might suppose, from his skin being black, but owing to his being at one time a prince in wickedness—one of those written about in so interesting a manner by rare John Bunyan, in the "Holy War." Happy Charley and a number of "Salvation prophetesses" also favoured the gatherings with addresses.
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-12-17 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT ST. HELENS.  A shocking attempt to &Admit .: uleide was made on Wed-s Lackland, who is uesday night, by a man named Thorn.— 's apparently between 50 and GO years of age. La'tf...land -an . pearance for some time has displayed gloominess and !dejection of spirits, but it was never thought that he would have made such ^an attempt. Be is a general provision , dealer, residiag at 30, Eceleston-street, the shop principally 'being under the control of his wire. lie has been in the habit of working elsewhere, but it is said that for the lett week he has been out of employmenf. This trouble added to others suppose to arise from the ingratitude of =profitable customers, had the effect of seriously depressing him, and on the night in question his wife, hearing him make a noise in the closet in the back yard, went there and found him on the floor with his throat cut, and fearfully besmeared with blood. A few neighbour women appeared upon the scene, but were unable to obtain admittance to the closet. Assistance was procured, the door having been forced open, and the bleeding man was taken inside his house. The same person who broke open the door then hurried to Drs. Twyford and Jamison's surgery, and Dr. Ogden eventually arrived and sewed up the wound For several hour, and indeed all through the night, ail hope of his recovery was given up, the windpipe being severely cut. Ultimately, however, a tube was insertedin the-windpipe, and his friends, and himself even' wein of opinion that he would recover. There was very little excitement in the neigirbourbood. Lackland was looked upon arr a very respectable man, and general regret was expressed that he should have been 80 foolish ;Into commit so rash an act. its brother is a collector of taxes in the town. On Thursday morning hie condition was nueh as to inspire his relatives with hope and about noon he was sleeping soundly. On enquiries mace on on Thursday night by our representative we learn that the man was thevallye, and it is believed that bar will recover.  aw...,...•4011••0np.••••
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-04-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A. POLICEMAN.—John Evers, an Irish man, employed as a chemical labourer, was charged with being guilty of a breach of the peace in Waterloo-road, and assaulting P.C. Laing.—Complainant gave evidence to the effect that on Saturday night, at quarter past eleven, the defendant and about 50. other men were making a terrible disturbance in Waterloo-road, and insulting people as they passed. He went to the place in company with P.C.. Graham;and asked the men to go away. Prisoner struck him in the eye with his fist, and he was afterwards knocked down. On getting to his feet he saw about 12 men kicking P.C. Graham, who was on the ground, and stonea and bricks tieing about. He and the other officer had to use their staves in order to clear the street.—P.C. Graham gave corroborative evidence, and added that he was also knocked down and kicked by several men as be was seizing a labourer named O'Neill.—Mr. Husband appeared for the defence, and called Michael McCann, with whom flip prisoner had lodged for several years; Michael Currigan, Ann McCann, and John Evers, to prove that the prisioner was in McCann's house during the row.— The Chairman said the Bench believed the evidence of the officers, and defendant would be fined 40s. and costs for the assault. The breach of the peace summons would be dismissed. . THB CASs OF ALLEGED SUlClDE.—Bridget Oates was i again brought up on a charge of attempting to commit . suicide. The particulars of the case have already appeared in our columns. Prisoner was discharged on promising not  to offend again. CHARGE OF STEALING CLOTHlNG.—Elizabeth Ann Wadsworth (14), was charged with stealing wearing apparel, value 55., the property of Francis Cook, Pool-street, some three months ago. Prisoner was taken in by the prosecutor, as she had no home, and she had acted as cook. During the time of her stay, though she admitted she had been well treated, prisoner stole the articles.—Mr. Gaskell said the Bench did not like to commit the girl to prison, and they agreed to discharge her on condition that she was given up to some respectable relatives, who live in Warrington,
Widnes Examiner. — 1881-11-26 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE SHOCKING FATALITY AT ST.  IT ELE v.S JIINCT f ON.  An inquest was held on Friday, by Mr. C. E. Driffield, county coroner, on the body of the Rev. Father Sebastian Enrico, passionist priest of the Sutton Monastery, who was killed in a shocking manner en the London and North Western Railway, at St. Helens Junction, on Wednesday, the leth inst. Mr. Ferrand appeared for the railway company. The Rev. Father Basil Moubart, vice-rector of the Passionist Monastery, Sutton, said he had seen the remains, and bad no doubt they were those of a priest, who was known as the Rev. Sebastian Enrico. He was 54 years of age, and an Italian by birth, but had lived for N years in France. About twelve months ago he was expelled, and had since been in Rome and London without a charge, until three months since he came to the Sutton monastery. On Wednesday morning he said he was going out, but did not say where to. About twenty minutes to eleven, witness was told the accident had occurred and went to the station. He was of opinion that deceased saw the train coming up and was so anxious to get in that he did not think of his ticket. Witness was of opinion that deceased could not understand what the porter said, as it was hard to make him understand English. He had not the slightest suspicion that deceased intended suicide, but he had that morning complained of dizziness in the head, and had been under Dr. Donnellan.— The Doctor said he had experienced great difficulty in making deceased understand, and had to use Latin phrases to do so. Unless the porter accompanied his commands with gestures, deceased might have thought it meant to call him on.—Thomas Archer, porter, said about twenty-three mi rill tes past ten on Wednesday morning deceased came to the edge of the up platform and asked if that was the train for Liverpool. The train from:Manchester was just drawing up to the platform, and an express was coming from Liverpool. Witness shouted "Stand back, stand back," and immediately the trains crossed. He beard the whistles of the express, and directly afterwards saw deceased rolling underneath the train. Deceased was cut to pieces, the face and part of the head being completely knocked away. His body was .fearfully mangled and was collected and placed in a sheet. Witness had never seen a body so terribly mutilated before.— idmund ‘Vhitehead, driver of the express, said he was running at about N miles an hour. On nearing the junction station he saw deceased on the platform and said to his mate. "That man is going to jump off; we are going to kill him." He jumped off and stood in the middle of the road, and did not stir a foot, he seeming as if lie was fast to the ground. The whistles were blown, but they could not stop, and , deceased was knocked down and killed.—Dr. Donnellan suggested that someone should be there to prevent people crossing over the level. The Coroner said the company had entirely remodelled the station within the last two or three years, and every precaution seemed to have been taken.—The jury returned a verdict cf "Accidental death."