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The Haslingden Gazette. — 1910-08-06 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE.  WITNEOS SAYS HE HEARD SCREAMS. The Foreman said the jury wished to have a witness called named Thomas Wright. Inspector Garvey said they had his evidence, and he could be nailed. He could call another hundred witnesses if the jury liked. Thos. Wright said he seas branch manager of the Lancashire Daily Post," living its Dutton-street. At a quarter totters on Saturday night he heard the cry of fire. He ran into Holme-istreet, and at that time flames were coming out of one window. When he got to the back no flumes were coming front those windows. He did not see Mrs. Williams coming out of the back door, nor Mr. Harding. As he was entering Mrs. Williams' yard, P.C. Dewhurst was pitching a man out. That man was not drunk, but had had some drink. The contable also pitched another young man out, so witness went into Sharpies' yard. He then shouted as hard as he could for a ladder, hose pipe, or anything of that hind. The Coroner: What made you do that? Had you heard something ?—Yes, shrieking. (Sensation.)  Do you say you heard fomeone shriekittg?— Yes.  Were the flames then coming out of the back windows!—Out of one window.  Did you tell anyone?—Yes, P.C. Deshurst, and he said he had hoard them as sell. What else?—fle said it sould be suicide to enter. (Sensation.) Do you think rescue might have been possible at that time?—Yes.  In an-nor to quetions by Mr. T. Wain* nitfloat said the man that sas thrown out was nett drunk. He should say it sas 35 minutes before the host pipe °sine doss rhe back. If anyone had been there midi a, ladder he thought the somen could hare been got out. The Foreman: Did you ever wke steps to let _ . _ . . . .  the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade know ? I told P.C. Dcwhurit, and he appeared to be in charge there.  But you never took any steps- to let. the Superintendent know ?—I tried to get round to the front. after I told P.C. Dewhurk, but it was packed with people, and I could not get there. MT. Velmaley: Would Dewhurst let yOU paw? —He was driving us back, and telling us to clear off. When Don hurft said it would be tuierdal to enter I said, •' Well, we cannot but try." .By the Town Clerk: Ho did not sec anyone at  the fitting-room window. The Town Clerk: You did not think of breaking  this window ?—I could not see it from the yard where I was. He said Inspector Garvey called at his house the same night to ascertain whether any of Williams girls were there, but he did not tell the Inspector he had heard shrieking. Mr. Wahl...ley asked how it was Mrs. Williams had not been called. .  Inspector Garvey replied that she would be unable to throw any light upon the inquiry. Mr. Gray, the Electrical Engineer, called at the lan witness, said it was very dangerous to put inflammable material near flesltlo wires. The previous bra at Williams' was not reported to him, otherwise the Corporation nould have gone over the installation and inspected it for themselves.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1910-03-05 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

THE PLEBISCITE DODGE.  There is one moot illuminating detail in connection with this wonderful plan of a special "ad hoc" referendum upon the veto question for the purpose of getting the Government out of its mess. The " Manahtsder Guardian,'' the "Nation," and others who have advocated it insist that the referendum is to be for this occasion only—not for subsequent imitation upon other questions. We can see how the Radicals would put the issuo to the country. Vote for our veto plan they would say, and you will be spared tho costly nuisance of another general election just yet; vote against it. and the Government will resign, and you are in for that nuisance at once. But the country could not fail to see that it would ho invited practically to commit democratic suicide. It would be asked to give a vote now, the essential meaning of which was that it would be cheated out of its power to vote on other questions in the future. There are two fair lines ni to the referendum, and onl,, toe. Either we a,ni i k rel -rything  or we do not want it at all, and can be quite content with the practical referendum which an effective Second Chamber can @canto by insisting that Ministers shall go to the country with any particular Bill, unless they prefer to drop it (as the Radicals always do). What those Radicals are after is a single vote of the democracy now to secure that for the future there shall be no reforonce whatever to the democracy, either in the old way or in the new. There is to be no direct referendum on Home Rule, and the one institution which at present can Sec that the electors shall have a say about it is practically to be abolished. It is just like Louis Napoleon's plebiscite of the French people, whereby they delivered themselves over bound hand and foot to the Second Empire. We know how that Empire ended. How would a Redmond-Hardie despotism end?
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-06-21 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICERS' PICNIC. , The R-ossendale Association of Local Government officers had their annual picnic on Tuesday. The party numbered 42, and included the Town Clerk of Rawtenstall (Mr. James Whalley, president of the association), the Town Clerk of Hasling,.den, and the borough surveyors of Rawtenstall, and Bacup. They travelled by saloon and reserved carriages by train to Skipton, and on arriving there at 8-15 had breakfast. Two motor char-a-bates took the party to, Ripon, via Bolton Abbey and Blubber .House Moor, and an enjoyabl9 drive , brought them to their destination by 12-15. The Cathedral and other places of interest were visited. At one o'clock Ripon was left for Studley Royal and Fountains Abbey. , Mr. Hargreaves Wilkinson, secretary of the association, took a. photograph of , the party in the grounds, which i were seen at their best. The trip to Harrogate was commenced about three, and just as it was completed there was a heavy thunderstorm with pouring rain, the plans made for inspecting Harrogate being considerably interfered with. Harrogate was left about a quarter to five, and the journey to Skipton was made under good weather -conditions. The route chosen was through Otley, :Addingham, and Skipton, and the last-named place was reached at a quarter to seven. Dinner Was followed by a walk in the 1 woods and jaunts round the town. Skipton was left by train .at 8-40, and home was reached in good Lime.  On the 'seventieth anniversary of 'hie birthday the Rev. Joseph'Deans, of London, was re-elected secretary for the twenty-first year of the New 'Crrarch (SWedenburgian) conference meeting in; Manchester on Tucsdas.  . The body, of Alfred Clegg, •aged forty-one, a Nlirarp droiser, of 22, Clegg-street. Cohie, was on. Tuesday night found in the Leeds and Liverpool MAL near the Turnover Bridge, Barrow-ford. a spot known locally as the Suicides' Rest. He has been missing since last Friday. The Elizabeth Dobson Exhibition (£5O -a year for three years at any university), which is open to competition alinong etudents at the four principal grammar schools in Cheshire—namelv, Kin's School, Chester; King's School, Macelefield; Witton. Grammar School, and Stockport Grammar School—was aiwarcied to G. F. Seel, of the Maoclesfield Gramtnar School. ,
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-07-26 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

CARTER'S DEFENCE.  Mr. Carter, addressing the bench for the defence, said the bendh should be extremely careful that any feeling they might have against prisoner did not lead them into a wrong conclusion in point of law. Anyone vrould admit that prisoner had committed a grievous wrong, and some people would consider the girl also had committed a grievous wrong. Whatever might be the result of that in-. cluiry, prisoner would suffer, severe punishment, and so would that unfortunate girl. But the law was very much against a man .being put in jeopardy, and having to appear for trial if there was no reasonable prospect that a jury would' convict him on his trial.  Prisoner was charged with abducting a girl under the age of 18. He (Mr. Carter) did not propose to trouble the bench much on the qUestion of age, although prisoner said that the girl told him she was over 18; that it was only when he gob to Fleetwood that he for the first time discovered she was under 18, and that he then left her, and seat the wire to her father. He (Mr. Carter) left that for the moment because there was a complete answer to the oase..  It was nob sufficient to prove that a man went .away with a girl between the age of 16 and 18. It must be proved, to make a case like that succeed, that the girl left home inconsecpience of some "inducement, persuasion, or blandishment" held out to her by the man- In that case they had had no such evidence. The evidence was that the prisoner and the girl went away because they could not fee° the exposure of a scandal. That was not "in duoement, persuasion, or blandishment" Mr. Britoliffe had done his best in examining the girl on this point, and the -result of it all was that the girl said, "I went because of the scandal there would be through being seen. with a married man; because William Heap had, said he would "4 bell hi wife, my parents and the mill." Again, the girl said, "We' decided to go because of the scandal."  The girl clearly went without any inducement offered by prisoner. Was it not the other way? The girl ,said, "He told inc if I went I should have a  rough time at first:" That was to say, prisoner pointed out that if she persisted in going she would have a. rough time of it at first.: Prisoner said he did all he could to induce the girl to go home. He allowed her to go with him because he was afraid if he refused she would commit suicide. When at Fleetwdod he had had time for reflection, he sent the wire to the girl's home, giving all particulars. so that the girl might be brought home. The Bench retired for cons:deration, and decided to hear the defence fully.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-05-03 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

ACCRINGTON MAN'S TRAGIC SUCIDE.  FOUND ON THE ROADSIDE.  Mr. Li. Jones, the Flintshire coroner, held an inque4 at Saltney, last Saturday, concerning tho death of Harry Nield, aged 30, of 73, Lister-street, Accrington, whose body, with a bullet halo through the head, was found besidys the main road from Chester to Hawarden, near Broughton, the previous morning.  George Niold, blacksmith, of 73, Lister-street, .Accrington, said his son lived with him. Deceased, who was a labourer, returned five months ago from Canada, where he had been for ix years. Since he came home he had been suffering from nervous debility, and was attending a doctor. Sometimes 1.• wee very despondent, but he never threatened to take his life. Deceased left home. at 10 a.m. on Satuixlay, April 19th, and witness did not know where he had gone. He had no revolver then. lie drew £5O from the bank' before he went dway. His wife died in Toronto a year ago, three months after their marriage. Witness had been warned by his son's doctor that he might do something of this kind,.  Joseph Beresford, of Christleton, Chester, a foreman in the outdoor Post Office Telegraph Department, said that at five minutes past six on Friday morning his mate and himself were cycling to Broughton, and when near Wall Hou&c. Farm they saw a man bing near a ditch on tho .roadside. His head was doubled under him. He was dead, with a revolver in his hand, and a revolver shot in his mouth.  Police-Sergeant Williams said deceastxl must have placed the revolver in :his mouth and then fired the bullet, which emerged from the back of his head. In Nield's pockets he fund £3B in gold, silver and copper, and a gold wedding ring. Ins watch had stopped at 3-55. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while i-emporarily insane."  The Leeds Markets Committee have decided not to accede to a request that shops in the c,entre of the city thould be exempt from the half-day closing under the Shops Act.  During the past five weeks free breakfasts have been given to 345 Sheffield: children, as against 5,784 during the corresponding period of lust year, when the coal “rike wa in prOgress.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-09-06 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

WHAT OCCURRED ON BLACKBURN TRADESMEN'S HOLIDAY.  A scene in a printer's shop had its sequel at Blackburn on Tuesday, when William Wilding, apprentice printer, 45, Johnston-street, was summoned by Frederick George Barham for assault. Barham stated that on June 12th, the tradesmen's holiday, his employer, Mr. Briggs, was away from the works. Wilding entered the workroom, took hold of him by the shoulders and he fell against some boards. His head came into contact with the wall, and he also injured his leg. In answer to Mr. J. W. Carter, who defended, Barham denied that he threatened Wilding with a pair of shears until the defendant had assaulted him. Wilding said the trouble arse owing to Barham refusing to give some paste to a boy sent by him. Barham threatened to throw hinv 'downstairs, and in self-defence he pushed the complainant away. He strongly denied the assault.. Dr. Pollard said he examined Barham on Aug. 7th. and found no trace of any bruises on the body. The defendant was fined 10s. and costs.  A cheque for £3,983 183. 11d., and a large number of share certificates wens stated to have been found on the body of Mr. Arthur Taverner, part oroprietor and manager of the Falcon Hotel. Clapham junction., who was found drowned in the Thames near Battersea on Saturday. A verdict Suicide while Temporary Insane was returned. On Monday. •at Menai Bri.elge, Edward Allen, a MancheAer engineer, was fined Ll and, costs for using a draw net which had a mesh of 6in. Dr. Jenkins, who prosecuted .for the Lancashire and Western Sea Fisheries Board, said the mesh of the net should not have been less than 7in. Mr. Nee; for the defendant, said Allen, who was holidaymaking at Malltraeth, was unaware of the regulation, which diffezed in various parts of the country,:  OR, DE ROOSTOMPOUND RENAL PlLLShave over fifty years reputation as the most safe and speedy remedy Per Pains In the Bacl,, Gravel, Lumbago, Gout, Rheumatism. Weakness across the Loins, Sandy or other deposits, Stone, Stricture, and Diseases of Kidneys and Urinary Organs generally. Price is.l4d. and 2s. gd. of principal Chemists or post free from The Dr. De Roos' Medicine Co., Kentish Town, London. Genuine packages bear the Government stamp, with words
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-06-14 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

MAN FINDS HIS WIFE DEAD.  The first inquest was with reference to the death of Sarah Ward, 7, Salisbury-street, aged 66. Thomas Ward, iron-dresser, 7, Salisbury-street, said deceased, who was his wife, was 66. She had stiffer. from rheumatism for many years, and about eighteen 'months ago she had a shock. She had gone about the house, but the shock had left her lame on her right side. She seemed all right on Tuesday. On .Wednetklay morning he took her a cup of tea before he went out to work. About. nine o'clock he was fetched from his work because the milk- man could not xvet in. ire found his wife dead on the bedroom floor. She had got out of bed and taken off her nightdress. The C.,oroner said the death was the sort of end one would expect. The woman had had one shock, and unfortunately this 'came on when no one was at home..  A• verdict Of "Death fram natural causes, probably. heart failure" was returned. The second inqueot was on the death of ,Tohn Haworth (65), of 26, Warwick-street. Jno. Haworth, son of the deceased, said his father,' was formally an overlooker. He had been out of work- for some time 'owing to failing eyesight duo to cataract., Fifteen months„ age deceased'i Wife died. Deceased had been very lowspirited owing to these two things, and he became ill himself. 'His doctor told him he had gall atones, and. could not be cured unless he 'underwent an operation, This made deceased the, more lowspirited. Witness left his father in bed at 6-30 that (Friday) morning, Deceased came /down soon after eight, and went out into the back yard. When he Came back he said be would go and lie down. He went upstairs. About 9-30' witness had occasion to go upstairs. He saw deceased in a. sitting position ,at the foot of the bed. The bed clothes were fastened' round his neck and the foot of the bed rail. Life was extinct. The Coroner said everything pointed to the poor fellow having made away with 'himself owing_ to depression following upon his trouble, and the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst of unsound mind."
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-07-19 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

ACCRINGTON YOUNG WOMAN'S BODY  FOUND,  FOLLOWED THE OCCUPATION OF A  WEAVER.  During the last week-end another was added to ' the long list of suicides which have taken place in the canal at Church, sand it was again a case of a young woman who followed the occupation of a weaver. It appears that early on Sunday morning E. Aspden, a lamplighter/ Union-street, Church, when passing the canal behind Church Bank •Mill, sat a woman's hat and jacket on a wall skirting the canal. He reported his discovery to the police, and dragging operations were commenced, and resulted in the recovery of the body of a woman from the water. The body was removed to the mortuary. In the evenini the body was identified as that of Alice Franklyn, a single woman, aged 29, of 2, Frederick-street, Accrington. An inquest was conducted by Mr. H. J. Robinson at the Church Police Station on Tuesday. Henry Franklyn, 46, Frederick-street, father of the deceased, said she followed her occupation as a. weaver up to Saturday dinner-time. She had not enjoyed very good health for the past eight years, having undergone three operations. She went out on Saturday night at 9 o'clock to see a friend off who had come from Haslingden, being in good spirits. She did not return. Albert Leeming, Globe Inn, Accrington, stated that he had been keeping company with deceased. He arranged to meet her about 11 o'clock on Saturday night. but she did not keep the appointment. P.C. Willacey spoke to recovering Franklyn's body from the canal near Church Kirk Bridge on Sunday morniag. Her hat and jacket had been placed on the wall of the towing-path near where the body was found„ Otherwise she was fully dressed. A verdict was returned Ihat deceased drowned herself, but there was not sufficient evidence to show the state of her mind.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-11-29 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

HANGING IN THE BACK KITCHEN  PATHETIC NOTE FOR BROTHER.  THE INQUEST YESTERDAY.  On Thursday morning, Bertha Viokers (33), weaver, of 74, Avenue-parade, Acerington, a single' woman, was found hanging in the back kitchen of her house, where she had been living with her brother. Miao Vickers had suffered from nervous debility for two or three years, and had been under , medical treatment. For the past nine months the ailment had, prevented her from, following herem,ployment as a weaver. She was last seen, alive by a neighbour on Thursday morning, about nine o'clock. ,At 11-20 Mary Ann Smith, of 78, Avenue-parade, went into the house, and found Aliso Vickers hanging- by the neck by a rope attached to a hook in the ceiling. She gave the alarm, and P.:S.. Lomax and P.C. Paintin immediately entered the house and cut the rope. They at. once sent for Dr, Gandy and tried artificial respiration, for about 20 minutes. On his arrival Dr. Gandy pronounced life extinct. 1, The inquest Was•hekl in the Court-room of the Accrington .Town Hall yesterday morning, by Mr. Hailewood.  Arthur Vickers, labourer, brother of the dieaid, young. woman, said she waa a single woman, and  lived with him at 74, Avenue-parade. She was a cotton weaver, cind.3:s, year of age. During the  - last three years sir had 'suffered- ,from nervous debility, and for pine months had not been able to follow her work at. the mill. Since then she had kept house for him!. Sbo'slept in .the front bedroom. At ten o'clock on Wednesday night. she went to bed, and he did' not see her alive again. Clara Carr, winder, of 76, Avelino Parade, deposed that at 9 o'clock on Thursday. morning she Saw deceased in the back yard when she was fetching coal. The Coroner: Did she speak to you? Miss 'Carr: She smiled to me. The Coroner: She appeared to be all right then? Miss Carr: Yes. That was the last time she saw deceasea alive. _  Mary Ann Smithlie of Gee. Smith, labourer. 78, Avenue-parade, stated that about 11-20 on Thursday evening, she went into deceased's houpe and found her banging by.a rope from ,thook in the kitchen coiling..rler feet would be about 121 n. from the floor. She gave information to the pace. P.C. Paintin said that when he was called he found deceased banking as 'described. He cut her down and found that she was dead..'He.tried cial respiration for a long time, but *was of no avail. The envelope produced was on the table.  Tho Coroner read the following pathetio note  "Dear Arthur.—Good-bYe, Ge.":l -bless you.. I cannot stand the strain any longer. You will find  me in the front room."  The Coroner said deceased had been away from work nine months, and had. suffered from nervous debility for some years, and evidently she was un-' able to see her *ay through. Perhaps., too, she did not like the idea. of having to live on-her brother. i Doubtless they would find that she committed suicide whilst of unsound mind. The jury concurred, and returned a verdict to this efferit.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-03-08 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

WOMAN'S PROMPT ACTION SAVES LIFE.  Thomas Cumberlidge (59), a. coal-dealer, of St. T.ai,vrence-street, Great Harwood, was on Tuesday charged at Church with atteuTting to commit suicide at great Harwood on the previous day. Mary Ann Cumberlidge, prisoner's wife, stated that prisoner went out of the house quite cheerful on Monday, and had never threatened to take his lifo. . .  , Elizabeth Chamberlain, prisoner's sister-in-law, 'residing at 56, Griinshaw-street, Great Harwood, said that prisoner stabled his horse behind her house. About 8-20 on Monday morning witness went into the cartshed, ana -found prisoner hanging by a Top° attached to the roof of the shed. She ran into the house for a knife, and cut him down immediately. She also sent for a doctor, who attended to prisoner She could not Say whether prisoner was unconscious when she -cut him down. He had always been a jolly man, and -very respectable.. , • Prisoner's two sons promised to look after htin, and as he assured the magistrate that he would not repeat the offence, he was disehargcd.  The Belfast Harbour Board are constructing„ at a oost of £30,000, a new basin to take the place of the Abereorn basin, which is wanted for the accommodation,of coal steamer A Bible purchased with the proceeds of a halfpenny collection at a Birmingham Sunday School has been sent with an inscription to Peter, the little on of the late Captain Scott. After racing a man from iMenai Bridge to this offieo inffiangor, Captain J. B. Stroud, adjutant. of the local Territorials, who Was thirty-two and was married five weeks ago, sat down on a chair and died. . Rolling off ai bed on to a. frying-tan standing on to a lighted gas-stove, a nine-montbs-old baby named pilgrim, of Cambia-stret, Southwark, was badly burned, and died in the Hospital from bloodpoisoning.