Widnes Examiner. — 1887-09-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A WOMAN. the whole nation delighted to honour—had been condemned On Thursday afternoon; Mr. Brighouse, coroner, to the cell of a felon by the laws which were supported by people.tllvpoutlieceotretphoerrreferenceeotioat to them ite haettetnodaoncemorf 'held an inquest at the Coach and Horses Inn, Liver- t st tWheithm pool-road, touching the death of Sarah Norbury, ta Brunner pointed out that an order meeting at in 1580, that a. -whose body had been taken from the river at police reporter should apply beforehand to the promoters of Atherton's Quay on Tuesday morning. The first a meeting for a favourable seat, was not complied with. witness, John Norbury, stated that he had been The fact was the police in Ireland did not even obey the living at 73, Howard-street, Sankey Bridges. The orders of their enperiors; when they exceeded them in the deceased was his mother, and she had also lived at direction of cruelty they were commended, but if they exthe above-named address. She was a widow, and ceeded them in the direction of clemency and mercy for Was 47 years of age. He last SAW her the people they were condemned. (Applause, and alive at six o'clock on Monday evening, at his /" That's true") They must remember one thing, lodgings in Barnett-street, and she asked him for that no Irish reporter—Nationalist or Tory—would three-halfpence, but he had no money to give her, sit with a police reporter. (Applause.) They hid now , I heard Mr. ill four's defence of the police report of what oc• as he had been out of work for some time past. I curred at Mitcbelstown and they had seen that the reports She told him that he would never see her alive - • . , made by those English members of Parliament who were disagain. and she struck him on his head two or three I interested spectators differed in fob o from that of the police times with her hand. " just like in gammon ; ' and They knew that English policemen sometimes swore toand then went away. He did not see her alive again. gether unanimously. (Great laughter.) The Police here She had had some drink. She had been drinking a are the friends and protectors of the people ; In Ireland great deal for a month past. He had been out of they were hated most bitterly and justly. (Applause) work for three weeks, and was unable to pay the And now when the police in Ireland were unanimous on one rent, and the landlord put in a distress, and a side, and when three English members of Parliament were dresser was sold to pay the rent. That caused de- unanimone on the other, who were they going to believe? ceased to fly to drink. Previous to that (4 The English members," and applause.) They had absoshe had i .ticatbfuolnarwya hadthabetenniinn tthe thhabitf pnroofanthdathtihdeclireiasrh ccoonnvs had no drink for eight or nine months. She had 1 0177 previously several times threatened to take away theyriepOrts which came from lieland wsere as much a tissue her life, and he had been obliged to lock the doors et . lies as the Mitchelstown affair. (Applaese.) During the at night to prevent her leaving the house. He past forty years the population of Ireland had dwindled quite believed the trouble he had named and I down from nine millions to less than five millions, and the the drink had unhinged his mother's mind. I very land had withered under the system. It new grew Eight years ago she tried to drown herself.— ilees of everything than it did forty years ago, with the ex. Richard Jefferson, 5, Baxter-street, Bank Quay, ception of hae, and the average produce per acre had deengine driver, deposed to finding the body of the I creased from six tons to three and a half. Were they going deceased in the river, and Margaret Jefferson testi- to allow such a state of things to continue in order that one fled to haying seen deceased at 10 o'clock on Mon- small class of rich and highly educated people should have day night.—Ann Clemens,with whom the deceased's a different method of collecting their debts than that entwo sons lodge, stated that deceased was at her j'Yedi 171 roetlhaenrd claasssaels on sft seoctic tyt ? The isi industry ufositthoef the house on Saturday and on Monday: She seemed to ' P eme%Peepond the present state of nsre affairsY cool the United King. be be in a very low state, as she crien very much, and Corn something like four millions more than it ought to do, asked witness if she would look after her two sons, apart from the pain and wretchedness and hate that it en. for she remarked "We don't know what might gendered. If the electors of Abercromby division supported hapyTen."—P.S. Cheney said he had known deceased that system by their votes at &nether election they were the for some time. After the body had been recovered veriest fools that ever walked. (Applause.) he went to her house, but found nothing in it but a few broken bottles. It seemed as though she had sold overthing she had got hold of. JUICY Lms.—At the Newton Petty Sessions', on He had once ' apprehended her for drunkenness, and they had Saturday, the assistant-overseers for tbe various townships I submitted their lis's of persons qualified to serve on jades. then to convey her to the police station in elandThere were no objections, and the magistrates signed the cart. -Since that time, however, she joined the Sal- I lists. 'station Army and seemed t) reform, but she had, „ iau,.,_ M i me