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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-05-12 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

OIL •  . NOT NECESSARY. We, the "News," have the higbat, ttiority for stating that clubs ea ia" Mre aids of the Wiley Ose wi obils to the Liverpool County 1.A.. and tP: they affiliate to the Wirral or Che&hireU they will not have to compete in se!: or shield competitions ou the etile".' the Merery. This is important to &IL, in Wirral and West Cheshire. SW"; and club officials who have been adriti.,tl r ferentlY should take the advice for 1.0 is worth.  SEARCHING TOR CLI Ba• The Liverpool County Com.biall, only a weakling at the present tinie._,lr eight clubs are wondering what a.fli,A happen unless the gods are additional clubs to the ran • n those running the show are literally, hug over one another in the wreath, So-and-So has la?en delegated to be, lake. Tranmere Rovers have bees)°i after, and in this r?spect much 02170 been spilt in Liveroool 1;ale'• . are haunted by another 'tout, Brighton Tower Amateurs are not ar“ ' with good feeling towards. thaw stopping at nothing in their endeateTsi secure the cream of West Chlshir,, What have Iloclake to gain ho cres, eavilmat Saturdays.smetllingVidoes ainn4ldeedsimiwlazr Pl, ite half a dozen instances be committing suicide to 10.01E' Cheshire League. Our adrioe a' to, leave the Liverpool County Coolie, 0 Liverpool clubs, Wirral and nen shire's standard of pin' IS tgr I:tber Of anything to be found Moreover, Wirral is for Wirlitt°,:„, be found when to-night's meeting place.  WIRRAL REFEREE ASSAA'• ~ The annual meting of the ahl-iro, has been called for )100day pelt, blO Hotel, 9.15 p.m. The seaean successful one despite the advero.,Allo 23 ss. 3d.. and th 3 referees gea,`,"--"000 shown a great advance on l'evroty' One thousand five hundred all tlf Poiutments were made throagt°lo; and on the financial side telegiti. phone, and stamps cost 29 3`.,,,,i to the general meeting. which . ~. the National Refer?es Erica, no Committee iv.ill meet at 7.l PO' 4 .------- v r3asoksNlins coSWffoyr,lSsts.yiZl:thteCOh:ftticßsonEjaStforesi:Docill'):l' not benefit by joining the i WO League. I can lianie severs, .0 00 shire clube that have taken On ID°l3e, and spent 50 Da eent..!,loo I penses than did Birkenhead deTil 00. son. (21 There is a oide i:,•'''`' " futures," as It were.  " 041 Printed and Published ell a *64 .0 slot the NEL snarerWILSIPIL ~, 150 street Pirkenheed. Vis, WEDNESDAY, II iAY  -•• . , . e • . - . . , . • . . THE tiarazigitickp Itrvirs. NrviDNYADAY.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-06-30 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN PICCADILLY. MURDER OF A FINANCIER. SUICIDE OF A JOURNALIST.  "A terrible tragedy was discovered late last night to have taken place at the flat in Piccadilly-chambers, which has lately been in the occupation of an American financier and company promoter, Mr. Oscar Westron. as found in his smoking room 'tabbed to the heart, while, close by, with% revolver bullet through his brain, lay thd body of Edward Markwick, a well-known London journalist. "Oscar Westron had apparently met his death it the hands of Edward Markwick, who had afterwards shot himself." And so this was the end of Markwick.  Scarcely more than two years ago, with the flush of health upon him, and carrying Inc good wishes of all his confreres, he quitted Fleet-street to make, as he fondly thought, • fortune in kmerica, the land of so' many will-o'-the-wisp hopes. Unhappily tie had become, like many others, infatuated with the promises of Oscar Westron, and joined in a scheme that tins adventurer had promulgated for the exploitsLion of • gold patent. The scheme seemed an' &latrine one, and fascinating. Markwick saw Crtesus-like dreams of wealth before hini, but the whole thing was a fraud from start to finish, the process a pretence, and in the end, robbed of all he had saved and invested, I he drifted back to London, friendless and alone, heartbroken and penniless. He tried to find -work, but failed; his pride was greater even than his necessity, and be would not come to his old comrades beseeching help. Broken down in health and dejected fa spirit, the fire of revenge still burnt within his veins, and the ring of his voice as he spoke of his wrongs boded ill for Oscar Westron whenever they should meet. For • while Markwick worked steadily on the "Herald," but a week before the tragedy he had failed to turn up at the office, and apparently had disappeared from Londonl again. He had discovered the whereabouts of Oscar Westron. Fate, in the turning of her wheel, Lad brought Westron within the sphere of Mark- , wick's revenge, and he had taken it.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-08-25 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

JUMPED IN THE RIVER. ELDERLY MAN REMANDED AS LUNATIC.  Rock Ferry Esplanade was the scene of an alarming occurrence at midnight on Tuesday last, and the circumstances were reported in Saturday's "News."  The sequel was heard in the Borough Police Court on Monday, when an elderly man named Patrick McFay, of no stated address, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the river.  P.C. Maggs (29C) said that be and a friend, Mr. Hancock, were walking down Bedford-road, and Mr; Hancock left him for a moment. Witness heard a cry for help come from the direction of the river front, and he ran along the promenade. The tide was well up at the time, "and he saw his friend running a few yards in front of him. Mr. Hancock then reached out with his stick to prisoner, who was struggling in the water, and the men got hold of it. Witness and Mr. Hancock then brought prisonerto the side of /he wall and got hold of his wrist. After some trouble they succeeded in getting him on to the esplanade, and witness immediately administered first aid and brought the man to consciousness. He then said that he Bad taken hie hat and coat off and had jumped in with the intention of drowning himself. This was evidently true, for his hat and coat were found on the bank by Mr. Hancock. %'hey took McFaY to the Royal Rock Hotel, and gave him brandy and placed him in a warm bath, afterwards wrapping him in a blanket. He was eventually taken in the ambulance to the Borough Hospital. Mr. F. E. Hancock corroborated. Dr. Muir, senior house surgeon at the Borough Hospital. deposed to having •received prisoner, who at the time was suffering from theeffects of immersion. Witness did not think that prisoner was of sound mind, and he understood that his (prisoner's) home life had net been comfortable. On the application of Supt. Parker, nrisoner, who announced that he had nothing to say at present, was remanded to the workhouse for a week ris a lunatic.  Maggs and Mr. FLancoc were highly complimented by the Chairman (Alderman 3. Gaudin) for their promptitude in rescuing the marl and saving his life by administering brat-aid.  The }lnvest Display of Diamonds, Jewellery, and Silver can be meth at DAMIIII3II zi. Church-street. Livermeek -ir
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-12-11 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

RAH FOR PROTECTION."  (From the American "Plumbers' Journal".) When he told me that he was a journeyman plumber, had been unable to get work in three years, that he was hungry and had no money to pay for food and lodging —wbcn he grew pathetic and declared his readiness to commit suicide if things didn't change, I halted and asked: "Why don't you get out of New York?" „- .  " I io-ti[7?" "Go to the country-0 to New Jersey. Any farmer will give you your keep for what you can do until building picks up a little so that you can go back to plumbing." You never tried it, did you?" he queried.  "rim sure of that. I have, however, and I know how it works. I land in Jersey City. There's a policeman right there, who looks me over and yells: "Wet you adorn' here?' "Looking for work.' "'Skip—git.—travel, or it's three months in ,jail! "I sits along up town," says the tramp, 'and meets another copper, and he yells: "'Wot is this I see before me?'  "`An unfortunate man a lookin' for a it--hump—skate! If you ain't out of town in haltan-bojir it'll be six months in the lug!' geteout of town and into the country. I sees the cows in the barnyards and the sheep gambolin' in the meaders, and I hears the farmer vrhistlin' as he splits fence rails or chops at the wood pile. All is lovely, and I open the gate and walks in, and a dog as big as a hill throws me down and claws me up. Then a woman throws a pail of hot water over me, and a farmer comes runnia' with a club, and yells out: _ _ _  '"Durn yor-hide, but what d'ye mean?' "Tm lookin' fur work.' "What work?' ".".:Any sort 'w of work.' . . _ _ _  "'but thar hant bin any work in Jansey sence 1860, an' you Orter know it! Git up'n fly.' _ " Then I goes along about a mile further, an secs a feller at his gate smokin' his pipe. Ile hain't got no milk o' human kindness in his eye, and so I'm piteejn' by whin he yells: "'What's the matter with you?' ".Isluthin'!' _  "What are ye passin' along here fur?' '"A-lookin' for work.' '"Oh, ye are! Wall, I've got it fur ye! Come along o' me-' "He's a constable, and takig me before a court at Elisabeth, and the Jedge looks at me an! sea:  • lir: I see! Young man, hey you 1,000 dollars in your pocket?' • "'No, sir.' "Have you got money iii the bank—a farm—own any lionder "'No, sir.' "11'm! Worst case of total depravity I've seen in five years! Sc, you are a-lookin' for work—hard work?' "'Yee, sir.' "Work to sweat the color outer your eueyenders and make yer ha'r curl?' "That's me, sir!' "Then I'm overjoyed to know that I kin aocommodhte ye. Prisoner at the bar, stand up. You ain't goin' to stand up to a drink, but to a sentence of nine months in the county jail at hard work!' "'What fur?'  Fir leiit7ta" a god thing in New York and lookin' fur work in New Jersey,. Remove the caitiff""
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-01-23 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

RESCUER REWARDED. THU MAYOR OOMMENDS THE FURRIER HERO.  Theaters of the brave rescue of the wotildbe snide*, effected in the river on Sunday evening. by Walter Mackie, a deck hand on the ferry steamer Didston, was repeated yesterday, when the young girl, Emily Davis, was brought before the Mayor and Mr. J. Pennock, at the Borough Police Court The girl, for she is only 15 years of age, lives with her father, who is a widower, at No. 10, Railway Cottages, Liverpool, was charged with haring attempted to commit suicide, by throwing herself in the River Mersey from the ferry boat Bidston, on the 17th inst. The first witness called was Captain Thomas Eaton. who said that on Sunday evening he went on board the Bidston, relieving Captain Cullen at 20 minutes to 5. He walked aboard, and no sooner had he reached the top deck than he heard the shout of "Woman overboard," raised by some boys. He ran to the side. and saw a woman, whom he supposed was the girl Davies, struggling in the water. He ran aft, at the same time calling the deck hands to assist him in lowering the small boat into the water, Mackie, who was on the lower deck, jumped into the water, and swam to the girl, whom he held on until the steamer's boat reached them. The girl was in greet danger of drowning, and had not Mackie jumped in, she would have gone altogether. The water was very cold, as it was freezin& at the time, and the flood tide was ruining between three and four knots. The small boat was manned by Wilkinson (the matel, Salisbury, and Bloom. Witness saw the two hauled into the small boat, and then the Sidston had to leave for Liverpool, so he SHOUTED TO THE CAPTAIN  of the incoming ferry boat, the Lancashire, to stand by the small boat. When the Hidston returned to Woodside bot% Mackie sale the girl had been taken into the receivingfOOM. Walter Mackie, the rescued, was next I called, and he repeated what took place (es given in the "News" on Wednes4y). He explained that he saw the girl was in difficulties. and jumped into the river fully clothed. He reached her as she rose to the surface. She was shrieking. Witness held her up, but she became troublesome. The Mayor: How do you mean? Mackie said she was
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-10-30 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ALL THROUGH DRINK.  CATHOLIC PRIEST'S FORTUNATE  INTERVENTION.  At the. Borough Police Court on Wecinzaday—before Mr L. C. Elmslie (chairman) and ,Mr. R. J. Rus,ell—a young man named Jams McKeever, 14, Garnet-street, was charged on remand with having attempted to commit suicide on October 19th. The Rev. Father McGeever, Roman Catholic priest of the parish in which-the prisoner resides, stated that on- the night o the 19th inst., about 10.3. i, the prisoner's wife came to him and told him that her husb:ind was suffering from the effects of drink, and was attempting to cut hie. throat. He went down to the house; and found the prisoner with a razor in. his hand, and bleeding from a alight wound in his neck. Witness tried to get the razor away from him, but could not, and for ten Minutes he could make no -impression upon the prisoner, who seemed incapable of recognising him. He therefore went out and fetched a policeman, and thz raper was taken from the prisoner. In answer to the Chairman, Father MeGeever said he had known the prisoner for ahaut two years. and he had regarded hinf as a rather st.ady,.straightforward • yOung ms.n. His home was most respectable, an he was very good to his wife. • ' The prisoner said he did net remember anything of what occurred on the night of the 19th. He had been drinking heavily. but he had now taken the pledge, and would. keep it. The Chairman told prisoner they hooked upon it as having been caused by drink, and as there was anothzir charge against him they would discharge hiin in thia.ease. The prisoner was then further charged, by summons, with having been drunk and disorderly in Watson-street on 'October .18th.—P.C. 188 proved that at 1016 pan. the prisoner was.drunk, heating out, and wanting to fight another man.A fineof. IN. and costs, or 14 days, was im,posed. •
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-06-02 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  At the Borough Police Court yesterday, Mary Smith, of 3, Nelson-street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by drinking permanganate of potash and sulphate of zinc. The prisoner, a poorly dressed woman, appeared to be about 35 years of  P.C. Peake stated that at 3-20 p.m. on Sunday, the prisoner's husband, Joseph Smith, called him to the house, and he found the woman on the floor trying to vomit. Her mouth and teeth were stained from something she had apparently swallowed. Witness gave her a strong solution of salt and water (the officer is an Ambulance Corps member), which made her sick, and he sent the husband for the ambulance, in which ths woman was conveyed to the Borough Hospital. Joseph Smith. the prisoner's husband, said that his wife took the poison while he was out of the house for only two or three minutes; he had only gone to his sister's two doors away. When he returned he saw his wife drinking something coloured from a bottle (a pint bottle nearly full of permanganate of potash and sulphate of zinc was produced in Court). He wrestled with her and took the bottle off her, and she said "she would be better dead than alive." He then ran out and fetched the police constable.  In answer to the Bench, the witness said there had been no quarrel on Sunday afternoon, but about 3 o'clock that morning there had been a quarrel, because the prisoner had stayed out until then, with a child, and had been drinking. Supt. Parker questioned the witness to show that it was through his conduct that the woman took the poison. The witness admitted that the mixture was something he used.  Dr. Muir, of the Borough Hospital, said the prisoner had not taken enough of the posion to kill herself, but enough to produce serious symptoms. Her oonduct in the Hospital had been rather strange, and on Monday, when told she would be going to the Police Court next day, she tried to get a towel round her neck.  Upon this statement the Bench remanded the prisoner to the Workhouse for a week, to be under medical observation as to her mental condition.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-06-02 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  At the Borough Police Court yeeteiday, Mary Smith, of 3, Nelson-street, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by drinking permanganate of potash and sulphate of zinc. The prisoner, a poorly dressed woman, appeared to be about 35 years of  P.C. Peake stated that at 3.20 p.m. on Sunday, the prisoner's husband, Joseph Smith, called him to the house, and he found the woman on the floor trying to vomit. Her mouth and teeth were stained from something she had apparently swallowed. Witness gave her a strong solution of salt ' and water (the officer is an Ambulance Corps member), which made her sick, and he sent the husband for the ambulance, in which th 6 woman was conveyed to the Borough Hospital. Joseph Smith. the prisoner's husband, said that his wife took the poison while he was out of the house for only two or three minutes; be had only gone to his sister's two doors away. When he returned he saw his wife drinking something coloured from a bottle (a pint bottle nearly full of permanganate of potash and sulphate of zinc was produced in Court). He wrestled with her and took the bottle off her, and she said "she would be better dead than alive." He then ran out and fetched the police *unstable.  In answer to the Bench, the witness said there had been no quarrel on Sunday afternoon, but about 3 o'clock that morning there had been a quarrel, because the prisoner had stayed out until then, with a child, and had been drinking. Supt. Parker questioned the witness to show that it was through his conduct that the woman took the poison. The witness admitted that the mixture was something he used.  Dr. Muir, of the Borough Hospital, said the prisoner had not taken enough of the posion to kill herself, but enough to produce serious symptoms. Her conduct in the Hospital had been rather strange, and on Monday, when told she would be going to the Police Court next day, she tried to get towel round her neck.  Upon this statement the Beach remanded the pcisoner to the Workhouse for a week, to be under medical observation aa to her mental condition.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-12-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

JAMES.  Councillor It. P. Fletcher (chairman of the Ferries, Committee) presided at the ceremony, and others present included his Worship the Mayor (Alderman J. H. MeGaul, J.P.), Aldermen Solly, Curphey, and Vaughan, Councillors Ralson, Hughes, Tweedle, White. Chalmers, and Major, Mr. T. Sumner (the Borough Treasurer), and Capt. Langehaw (Ferries Manager). Councillor Fletcher, on behalf of the committee, spoke h few words of welcome to his Worship, and invited him, on behalf of the Ferries Conamitme, and in the name of the town, to make the presentsnon of the awards to Seaman Reginald James, who, he added, had done so much to earn them. Seaman James was one of ;the many Ferry employees who had proved themselves ready to respond when duty called even at. the great risk of their lives. It was interesting b, note that Woodside Ferry employees held the record on the Mersey for success in the eavin,g of lives, and he felt perfectly sure that they would long continue to uohold their reputation in this respect (applause). The Mayor, in handing over the preaentations, congratulated Seaman James, and said that the man who bad the courage to dive into the River Mersey in an endeavour to rescue a person whom he knew nothing about and probably had never seen before, and perhaps if he had rescued him would hardly have got his thanks, merited recognition. The heart was there to de it and Seaman James had in his mind the knowledge that it was possible to do it, and he was going to do it. Unfortunately for the man who had gone to his long home 'that iris no possible. Seaman James did his daty as far as his etrength would allow. He.expressed his pleasure in the fact that Seaman James had earned not only the grants made by the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society and the Corporation Ferri-s Committee, hut the distinction that the Ferries Committee had a man of his courage in their employ. The action of men who risked their lives to do their utmost on lysthalf of entire strangers in an endeavour to bring them back to life created a splendid feeling. Some people determined on suicide, had, when they had been brought round, shown their everlasting gratefulness and had started a new life.  The presentations consisted of a certificate and £2 from the Shipwreck and Humane Sooioty; while £1 was given by Mr. W. G. Leete, of Oxton, who witnessed he incident, and an additional given by the Mayor himself. The gam of £2 vras al.o given by the Ferries Committee.  V
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-11-08 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE ISLANDS OF LEWIS AND HARRIS.  LORD LEVERRULME ON THEIR DEVELOPMENT. On Tuesday evening Lord LeverhtiLme gave a very interesting address before the Philosophical Institution as Edinburgh on "20th Century Development in Lewis and Harris." Hie lordship went into many details of the influences that have affected the history of the islands and the characteristics of their people, and also, in his opening observations, touched upon the general "backwash consequences of the war, and the call to those who =viva to "make a united effort to raise a better ciSiheation." He said reading reports and records made by visitors to' the Islands of Lewis and Harris we must not fail to remember that the people of Lewis and Harris had adopted Christianity long before St. Augustine landed in England, and were sending scholars to found Continental 'Universities two centuries before the existence of Universities at Edinburgh, Oxford or Cambridge. It is only necessary to add, on the authority of so accurate and distinguished a man as Sir Leslie MacKenzie, that the Highlands and, Islands send to-day to Universities from ten to twelve times as many persons in proportion to population DA the rest of Scotland or England. What seems to have struck viaitore most forcibly in addition to the healthiness, virility', and longevity of the inhabitants of these outer islande is their higher stendard of morality' and Christianity. There are more churches, chapels, and schools in proportion to population in Lewis and Harris than any other part of the United Kingdom. As iar back as 1792 special attention is called to the great number of old people in the various parishes throughout the islands. many well over 90 years of e4e. It is recorded that at that time they married young, that childless married women were extremely rare, and that cases of suicide were absolutely unknown e.mongst them.