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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-09-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE FINDINIU OF TUE BODIES.  James chaimers, a tereman papermaker, employed at a mill at Greenfield, stated that when on Saturday morning last about 10 o'clock he went to lift the water gate for a supply of water for the mill he passed through the ruins of Parry's Mine. in a recess he saw a woman lying face downwards, and on approaching her he found she was dead. He immediately telephoned for the police. • P.C. Stanley Evans, of the itolywell Police, said he found the body of the woman in a recess at the disused mine 'works with an overcoat underneath.  Dr. Morris, of Holywell, stated that he made an examination of the body of th 4 deceased woman and found a cleanly cut jagged cut across the throat 24 inches in length. The windpipe and the left carotid vessels were severed. There were no other injuries on the body except a slight bruise on the right elbow. In reply to the Coroner witness said that front the nature of the wound he could not say whether IL was self-inflicted, because no weapon had been found near. There was no indication from the nature of the wound whether it was a vase of homicide or suicide. Ile had seen many similar wounds which were certainly self-inflicted. There were no wounds on the hands which were often found when it was a case of homicide in which a sharp weapon had been used.  The. Coroner: Was the woind such as might be inflicted by the razor produced? —Witness: Yes.  William Henry Owen, father of the deceased man, who lives at Padeswood, and is employed as a railway signalman, said the deceased Was 38 years of age, and had suffered from ill-health for the last threa or four years. He was buffering from his heart, and nerves and "neurasthenia" had been put on the .doctor's certificate. The Coroner: Did you knew of any trouble between him and his wife—No, nothing at all except that they occasionally had a few words. Edward Sheldon, an iron worker, living at Buckley, deposed that while looking for mushrooms on Saturday morning he found the body of a man lying in a field near the Bryn Farm, Padeswood. The man's throat was cut, and a razor and a collar and tie were lying beside him.  THE NEW  Arthur Owen, brother of the dimmed, who lives at . Bryn Cottage, Buckley. stated that about 11 o'clock on the Friday night, deceased called at his house. He said "1 have had a few words with Annie again. I left her a day or tuo ago." Deceased stayed the night. but when ivitlIPSS got up the next morning he bad tome. Thu Coroner: Did you notice Pnything  abnormal about him the previous night —Wit ness: Nothing. _  Was he perfectly-soher?—Yes. Was he at all agitated?—No, bit he looked 1-ery ill. Bergt. Ferguson, of the Buckley Police, mid he went to the field where the body was tound 'and found the deceased lying on his hack with his throat cut. His arms, which were stretched out, were stiff, and to all appearances he had been dead for SOIIIII hours.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-12-05 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN STAFFORD-STREET.  PRISONER BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES.  At the Borough Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Preston, a young married woman, named Julia Isabella Wharton, 21, Stafford-street, was charged with attempting to cut her throat with a knife on the 7th Nov.—Thos. Wm. Wharton, husband of the p. limner, stated that his wife went out one Saturday evening and did not return until near dark on the following Monday. She was then the worse of liquor. They went to bed, but about three o'clock he was disturbed in his sleep by the baby. Missing his wife, he got up and went downstaies. He found her lying on the kitchen floor with her throat cult  and -bleeding. He then gave the alarm, and a policeman came in.—ln reply to the Bench, witness stated his wife had behaved very well at home, and was both clean and tidy. He could not account for her attempting to commit suicide. She wee not a habitual drunkard.—P.C. 32 (Hunt) stated that when he entered the house he found Mrs. Wharton lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Her throat was out, there was a knife lying by her side, and she wee quite unconscious. Witness sent for Dr. O'Reilly, who came and attended to her. Witness had also received her into custody that morning and charged her with attempting to take her own life by cutting her throat; and in answer to the charge she replied," I was very much depressed in spirits and did not know what I was doing."—Dr. O'Reilly deposed that when he was called in to see Mrs. Wharton he found her in a semi-conscious state. She was unable to speak, pale, and cold to the touch, and her breathing and pulse were scarcely perceptible. He found a wound in her throat about four inches long, and so deep that it reached to about the eighth of an inch of the carotid artery. She had lost a great quantity of blood, and he found it necessary to put four stitches in the wound. She remained in a half insensible condition for a considerable time afterwards, and was on the verge of death when he saw her.—Dr. ougden, house surgeon of the Borough Hospital, spoke to prisoner having been admitted into that institution. She was now well enough to be removed.—ln defence, prisoner said she was very sorry for what she had done, and would never take drink any more.-31r. Preston remanded the case for a week, admitting the prisoner to bail in one surety of CO. The husband was accepted as surety.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-12-29 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  A respectably•attired young man named Joseph Brorn, of Price-street. was brought up in custody before Mr. Preston, at the Borough Police Court on Thursday, charged with attempting to commit suicide by cntting his throat. Prisoner's father said his son was in the habit of getting drink, and about eleven o'clock on Wednesday night he came home, and witness went to bed. His wife, on going into the kitchen shortly afterwards, found the prisoner lying on the floor in front of the fire with his throat cat. P.C. 42 (Bryan) said he was called into the house at a quarter past 12 that morning, when he found the prisoner as described by the last witness. There was a very slight cut across the throat, but a large quantity of blood on the floor. Prisoner said to the officer, " 1 am only sorry I did not do a proper job. I will do it some time." In answer to Mr. Preston, the father said prisoner had not worked since May last, when he used to go out with a fish cart. He had been living upon witnesses' daughter. —Prisoner was remanded for a week to the workhouse.  THROAT IRRITATION AND COlJOH.—Soranese and dryness, tickling and irritation, inducing cough and effecting the voice. For these symptoms use Epps's Glycerine Jujubes. In contact with the glands at the moment the) are excited by the act of sucking, the Glycerine in these agreeable confections becomes actively healing. Sold only in boxes, 71d., tins Is. .; labelled "Jemzs EPPS & , Co., Homceopathic Chemists, London." Dr. George Moore, in his work on "Nose and Throat Diseases,' says, "The Glycerine Jujubes prepared by' James Epps and Co. are of undoubted service as s curative or palliative agent," while Dr. Gordon Holmes, &flier Physician to the Municipal Throat and Ear Infirmary, writes: "After an extended trial, I have found your Glycerine Jujubes of considerable benefit in almost all forms of throat disease."  BiltBl3BB PRIEST AND Bow, Land Agents, 1„ Mortimer•etreet, Town Hall, Birkenhead, have well-conditioned Houses, variously situated in Birkenhead and Tranmere, now ready for immediate occupation, at very moderate rents.—Adt.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-12-29 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

LINERS " AND THEM WAYS.  It must not be supposed that the liner here dealt with is a Cunarder or a P. and 0. boat; he is a useful member of the profession of journalism. In times corn. paratively ancient he was called the penny-aliner. If there is one salient characteristic of him in these days, it is that he is not paid a penny a line. . . Real genius is necessary to a genuine liner. Shakespeare would not have been suited to the post of Boston correspondent of the New York Herald, or Paris correspondent of the Doily Tile. graph, simply. because he " lakked the rekkisite imaginruthun. ' The same failing would have destroyed his success as a liner. Had " Hamlet " been despatched as a Press telegram by your modern liner, the message would have been headed something like this, in large letters:—" Appalling Tragedy in Denmark: King Murdered by his Brother; Young Court Lady Goes Mad and Drowns Herself: Four Royal Personages Slaughtered I" The "Merchant of Venice," instead of appearing under that commonplace title would have been heralded by the liner as "Extraordinary Venetian Trial : A Jew Money Lender Claims a Pound of Human Flesh l" In like manner "Romeo and Juliet" would have become "Deplorable and Pathetic Tragedy: Two Lovers Commit Suicide I" or something of that sort. The true magnetic fluid may be absent from these examples ; they merely indicate how Shakespeare's torso titles would have shot out if handled by the liner. . . . The plague and penance-of the harassed sub-editor, the *ne of the economical proprietor, the   ebt eha ec:itlekl reader,edwhowf eh's ewq nua lea Iluotowir:a thihni see sr ft 0, riir stones ne sd mustioikf solid fare excites no premonitory moistening of the mental nether lip. He is, in fact, a gifted person, who combines the imagination of a shilling-thriller novelist with the cuteness of a stockjobber, the inventiveness and resource of a Parisian detective, and a promptness and presence of mind peculiarly his own. The liner in a position to get good bens —" good" in a newspaper sense_.y command a highly fluctuating, but not insignificant, income. Occasionally nne like these make a grand comp. Soto years ago, when Sir Michael Hicks. Beach held a position in the Beaconsfield Government, he visited a large town to attend a conferPnce. The commitke gave him a luncheon, to which only the reporters of a particular journal wee admitted. After the luncheon, Sir Michael , made a speech which, for him, was en. , usually important. The press agencies ' could not obtain a line of it; yet the morn. ing papers were bound to have it. The favoured reporters, therefore, turned themselves into liners, telegraphed the speech all over the country, and netted about £l2O by the afternoon's work. Sir Stafford Nortbcote once gave a plum like this to a single reporter, delivering a speech, k special request, on as occasion wueu he had not intended to speak at all.—From Camits Saturday Journal.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-09-26 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

CHARLES MULL. Curator.  ported by a large and influential body both of Liberals and Conservatives. That Mr. Samuell seems surprised that the cells at the main bridewell sre so constructed that disorderly women can break the windows. What with suicides, attempted suicides, and window smaShing, our local gaol seems likely to attain an unenviable notoriety. Things , went on much more quietly in the old dungeons in Hamilton-street. ' That at the inquest held at E'astham on Monday, on the body of the unfortunate young woman who was found drowned on the beach, Constable West started a curious and entirely original theory as to the impossibility of a woman buttoning her boots otherwise than by means of a button hook. The Coroner promptly put his foot on this theory, declaring that women were full of ingenuity and could accomplish anything. The Coroner, with his long experience, is probably competent to express an opinion on the matter, and most people will agree that in this case he is right and the constable wrong. That very soon there will be a change in the musical conductorship of the Egremont Choral Society. This is to be regretted, as Mr. E. Trowbridge Jones, who at present wields the baton, holds a distinguished position in the musical world, and is an author and musical composer of no mean repute. The resignation of the gentleman in question will probably be announced at the forthcoming concert given by the society, when it is expected he will conduct for the last time.  That the Egremont Choral Society is composed of about forty-five members, and, under the able superintendence of Mr. Jones, performed someexoellent work last season. Mr. Jones is connected with the Liverpool Bluecoat School, but, for various reasons, he must sever his connection with either the choral society or the institution at Liverpool. If he adopts the former course, it may, perhaps, be no easy matter to secure an equally proficient gentleman. The question to be answered is this—lf the society values the professional services of Mr. Jones—and there is no doubt but that it does—why did it not try by some means to retain him?
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-06-23 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE LATE MR. WILLIAM PA RRY .  On Monday musical people in Birkenhead were much grieved to hear that Mr. William Parry had committed suicide whilst suffering from temporary insanity, on the previous evening. Mr. Parry, who was 61 years of age, was a familiar figure in Welsh musical circles both in the Principality and in Liver•..l, Birkenhead, and their immediate neigh..nrhoed. An enthusiast in the advancement of the art of choral singing, and gifted with fine sensibility as a conductor, his inspiring influence gave form and colour to the performances of the choirs that came under his control, and on not a few occasions he led them to well-won victories at the national gatherings of his country. Mr. Parry Slat gained fame as the conductor of the Liverpool Cambrian Choral Society. When the Birkenhead Cambrian Choral Society was formed he became their first conductor and occupied the post for over 20 years, and resigning in favour of his son, Mr. D. 0. Parry, about five or six years ago. His services were also in great I request as adjudicator of awards at musical festivals all over the country, but more partici. ularly in Wales. He was also the first conductor of the Welsh Sunday School Union Choirs, in Liverpool. On Thursday afternoon 1 the remains of the deceased were interred at Flaybrick Hill Cemetery. There was a large gathering at the funeral. The chief mourners included-Mrs Parry (widow of the deceasd), Mr W H Parry and Mr DO Parry (sons), Miss Annie Parry (daughter), Mr and M. Lloyd, Mr Thomas Jones, Mr Owen Jones, Mr J Devise, and Mr John Williams. Four members of the Birkenhead Cambrian Choral Society as it existed under the conductorship of the deceased bore the,c,offin from the hearse to tlze church and from the church to the grave—viz., Messrs. William Roberts, Wil-1 n-am Jones, Samuel Jones, and J H Among the members of the old and present societies and other friends who surrounded the grave, were Mr J Rowland, Mr F Owen, Mr J Thomas, Mr J D Jones, Mr T Eoulkes, Mr J Lee, Mr W. Owens, MT T Jones, Mrs Owen Jones, Mrs B Wilson, Miss Maggie Evans, Miss Kate Meredith, Miss Movill, Miss Machonochie, Miss Cox, Mrs Cnrwell, Mrs Singleton, Mrs Owen Jones, Mr Altwen Williams, Mr Edward Jones, Mr Ebenezer Jones, Mr R Hughes, Mr Edward Davies, doz. The coffin was covered with wreaths. The Rev. Hagh Jones, of Birkenhead, was the officiating minister.  "
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-08-22 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ONE OP T 11.631.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN THE MAIN BM DE WELL. A young man named Thomas Bevan, who was ruider remand on a charge of stealing money from a shop in Rose-mount, Orion, was brought up before Mr. Preston, at the Borough Police Court, on Monday morning, and farther charged with having attempted to commit Suicide, by hanging himself in a call in the main bridewell. Superintendent Clarke stated that the prisoner had been remanded on Saturday last awaiting the apprehension of a companion named Brown. When bridewellkeeper Parker went to take the prisoner his dinner he found him suspended by a small handkerchief tied round his neck, to a large iron ring fastened in the wall for the purpose of securing people who were very violent The bridewell-keeper at once cut slim duns'. He was in a very exhausted condition. Inspector Parker, keeper of the main bridewell, stated that at a quatter.past twelve he saw the prisoner safe in his cell. At one o'clock he was seen again quite safe. At about a quarter past two witness again visited the prisoner for the purpose of giving him his dinner, and upon opening the door witness found the prisoner in a lying position with his feet resting upon the floor, and the upper part of his body suspended by a scarf tied sightly round the neck and fastened to a ring in the wall. The scarf was fastened so tight as almost to be buried in the neck, which was very much swollen. Blood wag flowing from his ears and nose and he was iffsensible. Witness raised the pzieoner, and, resting his body on his knee, cat the scarf from round his neck, and sent at once for Dr. Cornwall, at the same time resorting to the method of the St. John Ambulance Association, with the view to producing artificial respiration. After Dr. Cornwall had arrived and treated the prisoner witness had him removed to the Borough Hospital, where he had sine? remained tinder the care of a constable. That morning witness said to the prisolim, "Bevan, I hope you will not repeat the attempt to take your life whilst you are here,' and he replied, "Illwon't promise you that. I am not going to be kept in prison here and the other boy off • to:America." When examined there was found on the prisoner a bandageiwhich he had apparently concealed for the same purpose as he had used the scarf. Dr. Cornwall, Hamilton-square, sad he arrived at the police cells at twenty minutes past two. The prisoner was then just corm meneing to breathe and showed all the symptoms of strangulation. A man in the position in which prisoner was found wo Id be suffocated very quickly. If the prisoner had been in that position a minute longer he would have died. Death would also have ensiled if artificial respiration had not been resorted to, in fact, it was evident to witness that bridewell-keeper Parker had saved the man's life. Superintendent Clarke said it was possible the other youth "wanted" would be in custody that evening, and the prisoner was thee. farther remanded.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-04-04 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTS]) BUICIDE.—A young man named' David Hart, who had been in the Army, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the East Float, ii•id also with assaulting Police-constable Harvey. On Thursday afternoon the prisoner, while under the influence of liquor, jumped into the ' dock. He was rescued by Thomas Steßox, captain of the flat Brill. Police-constable Harvey afterwards took him into custody, and on the way to the bridewell he assaolted the office. The prisoner, who bears a bad character, was sent to gaol for a month for assault ing the officer. ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN —Charles Williams, Taylor's-buildings, was fined 40s. and costs, or a month in default, for being drunk and disorderly in Nelson-street, and assaulting Police-constable Coxall. On Thursday the prisoner was making a disturbance in the street, and when the officer ordered him home be struck him a violent blow on the face with his fist. A YOUNG RASCAL —Thomas Ward, a lad of thirteen, was charged with stealing 4s. 6d. from his father, Thomas Ward, 5, Byrom. place. The money was missed by his father from his coat pocket on Friday morning shortly after the boy haft left home. The boy did not return till eleven o'clock at night and when he was questioned about the money on Saturday he admitted having taken it, and said he spent part of it at New Brighton. The remainder he left at a cocoa-room to be kept till Tuesday for him. The father said be was a very bad boy, and he had several times to pay school fines for him. He had also been in gaol for eleven days in default of not paying one of these fines. Mr. Preston ordered the lad to receive twelve strokes with the birch, and said if became before him again he would be sent to a reformatory.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-09-15 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

MYSTERIOUS FATALITY AT EASTHAM.  Considerable sensation was created at Eastham on Sunday morning by the body of an old man named Thomas Fair°lough (72), being found in a water tank. Deceased was employed by Mr. A. Tobin, of Eastham House, and shortly after eight o'clock on Sunday morning was missed from the premises. Enquiries resulted in the discovery of his body in the tank, which was capable of holding four feet of water. It the inquest subsequently held on the body by Mr. H. Churton, county coroner, the theory was instituted that the man went down a ladder to ascertain the depth of the water. The coroner in summing up said with regard to the state of the deceased's mind, it seemed he was a perfectly healthy, cheerful man who had never threatened to do anything to himself, but still they ha& heard lately of a number of cases very similar in character. Persons had committed suicide in various ways, never having shown the slightest disposition whatever to be mentally vitong. It is impossible to conceive the ides of this man not having committed the act of suicide, but the difficulty was as to the state 9f his mind. It was not possible, he thought, to return a verdict that he was accidentally drowned—it was almost absurd to entertain that idea. His impression was strongly that at the time deceased was not compos moats which he considered was the most charitable view they could take of tae case. 'The jury, however, returned an open , verdict of "Found drowned." The deceased was held in great respect in Esstham, where be had lived all his life. He was in the service of Mr. A. Tobin, of Eastham House, for over 20 years, and was greatly respected by that gentleman and all his family. The body of the deceased was interred with every mark of respect on Tuesday last in Eastham church yard, which was crowded by people anxious to pay their last respects to the deceased. The chief mourners who attended the funeral were Mrs. Fairdough, widow; James. Thomas, and John Fairclough, Bons ; Ellen Fairclough,danghter ; Mr. and Mrs. James McKay, son-in-law and daughter; Hrs. Collins, sister; Mrs. Edward Collins, niece; and several grandchildren. Others present at the funeral included Mr. and Mrs. A. Tobin and family and servants. The body was borne to the chureh by four of the deceased's fellow servants, and from the church to the graveside by his sonin•law, Mr. James McKay, and three grandsons, F. Fairclough, H. Fairclough, and Fred McKay. The funeral service was moat imvessively read by the Rev. F. Sanders, of Eastham. The funeral arrangements were in the hand. of Mr. Edward Worthington, of Bentham, who performed his duties in a manner that gave the greatest satishtetion.