The Cotton Factory Times. — 1905-12-01 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

TROUBLED ABOUT SPOILED WORK.  A girl named Annetta Min-hell, aged 15 years, was ehori;eil at thi Todmorden Petty Sessions on Thursday week with attempting to commit suicide by trying to drown het-kelt: Mr J._ E. Craven, solicitor, ,  . watched the ease on behalf of Messrs. Joshua Smith Limited, Frostholme Mill, Cornholme. Superintendent Brown stated that the prisoner was a weaver, employed at Froetholme Mill. About 12 SO on Tuesday afternoon. the 21 Nov., one of the cuilookers had ocosaion to speak to her respecting some spoiled work she had done. He informed her that if sho did not alter he would inform her mother. Frisoner begged of him not to teil her mother. At citriner-time the girl went home as usual, ha,l ler dinner, and made no complaint to her parents. She then returned to her work after dinner, and subee• quently left tier koala on the pretence that she was going for some weft. At about a quarter past four a man named Henry William Jowett, a collier, whilst walking along Burney-road, just above Portsmouth Mill, noticed the prisoner sitting on the bank of a water lodge on the other side of a railway. She *lid down the bank into the water, the lodge being about six feet deep. Jowett at once ran across to the lodge, and when he got there prisoner was floating on the water about a yard from the bank. He reached over, and she caught his hand, and ho dragged her out When he asked her the reason why she had done that, she replied, "I've been fetched up in the warehouse."  The Clerk asked what was the fault in the girl's weaving, and Mr. Craven stated that she had spoiled a piece about ninety yards long by having ends down and other faults.  (''. ,i i  The girl, &eked by the Clerk why she 'had tried to drown herself, replied, after some silence, "Because I get fetched up." The girl's father (Mr. Alexander Mitchell) (rated that they had had no previous trouble with the girl. The ( le:.k asked the girl if she had spoiled the piece, aud replied :`• I had only some curling weft that he told nse about."  Mr. Hoyle, J.P.: Hating spoiled the piece was yo reason for you acting so unwisely, because, at (re worst, I suppo,e it would only mean that a small fine would be imposed. .  —• The prisoner was released on the father being hound over in the surn of £lO for her good behaviour..  (Continued from page 3.)  meeting with Cecil Warpley which had ended in such a dramatic) and unexpected manner.  When Madge awoke next morning her first thought were of Cecil, and she borrowed the morning Paper from her landlady with a view to seeing if there was anything in it relative to her lover. She searched the paper through and through, but, of course, found no reference therein to the event in which Cecil and Jim Cranston had played so active part,  She hardly knew whether to carry out her threat of the previous evening and acquaint the police with what she knew or wait and see if she heard of Cecil from some other source. Ultimately she decided to wait the turn of events, and went off to her work as usual, to find to her great delight that Cecil was at the office looking little the worse for his adventure, the only traces of which was a cut at the back of the bead, neatly hidden by his hair, and a few scratches on his hands. _  Madge's heart beat wildly as Cecil went through the workroom during the morning, and the glance he gave her as he passed more than repaid her for the terrible anxiety she had undergone on the previous evening.  With Cecil. Warpley alive and well, Madge felt that her cherished hopes would yet he realised, and she would even have forgiven Jim Cranston for his interference had ho presented himself as a suppliant at that moment.  But, Jim was not aware of this, and it is probable that had he been so he would not at that moment have sued for pardon, for he felt he was in the right, and had only done his duty in trying to save Madge from her enemy.  So he went to his work as usual, in no way alarmed as to the consequences of the fight, though hi r heart was heavy when he thought of Madge's words relative to her connection with IVarpley. Rough as he was, Jim Cranston knew enough of the world's way to anticipate with accuracy what would be the outcome of such an allianeo, nd ho knew that, unless he was able to prevent it, Madge, if she went on to the bitter end, would find a sad and sorrowful awakening awaiting her. When Cecil Warpley reached home after hi a encounter with Jim Cranston he was no nearer the solution of his problem—how to get rid of Cranston— than Jim WSW of the puzzle of how to get rid of him. But Cecil had many advantages over the man who was endeavouring to checkmate him in the game he was playing with Madge Virorsley. He had seen more of the world than Cranston, and knew that, given opportunity and money; a fair-seeming man can always gain his end with a vain and frivolous girl, if he is prepared to stoop to unscrupulous me.o-ia to do so.  Of Madge, Cecil had neither fears nor doubts. It was Jim he was bothered about, for he did not, know enough of him to be able to come to any definite plan of campaign straight off. He concluded that Jim was too much in earnest and too honest to accept an open bribe in the shape of solid cash. If he were to be outwitted it must be &Me by more diplomatic means.  So, following Jim's example. Cecil slept on it, trusting to the morrow to bring forth some plan which would enable him to attain his end.