The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1904-01-02 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

LAW, POLICE AND ACCIDENTS.  Under this heading undoubtedly the event of most striking importance wag the owning into form, on the it January, of the new Lang Act. Few changes were notiosable in the adminiatration of the Booming leire until the annual Brewster Sessiona in February, when an important deolaration of policy was made by the Mayor-(Dr. R. Gem Morris), who presided on the Beach upon that occasion. In connection with the , Chester-etreet area a scheme of volnntary surrender, involving eleven licenses, , was =Emitted by Alderman J. T. Thompso., an behalf of the license holders, _and aooepted by the magiatrates. The Wirral, annual licensing sessions were not rendered remarkable by any swell occurrence; thivorlY importaril fea.tnre connextecl with them waa• I a declaration of future licer_sing pokey ander the nee Act. The year jest poised his-been enumally prolific in suicides, and in this connection the old-world district of Newton , has been cumanaly conspicuous. There-have !elm been a number of  STARTLI NO ACCIDENTS, may Ad whit& haveptoved fatal. The year lad soil advanced a aoopioof week, when Thames !leggier, a fax labourer batboy team Baby. sod in the eregiorof tar at Beath Pars, Barton, mitt= . gad. He wee lesding two cabin tram Williston to Barton, and shortly sifter he-.had left the former-mentioned lrige, one of the oohs darted away. Higgins bad tied ther •strap around hie wrist and, being toohls to , imm= aigrettes:lo it. he wee koookal of kis fest dragged for a sonsidemble des —..4 the mad. death resulting yew shortly atterwanis. At the ingaeot the termer elt-pseloomd no-little dlelouggie in properly dke .eheoglog his2=sa 111 oonoespiewarat a ow tbe peat at do ail, F 1: 3I maw celled se wi.thossee to toll they knew sheet the akar. Indeed, tel mak an ezieut wee this esiastewati carried that thressansr adjoaremed theta's:mat, with the remark that he was detursuined dolt woken should be kept bask. The ' wee ameolsbed a weak hker, and Mr. (the oorcwo). mode ~....bi.....p.6..... To r 11=it •bonne, tewaskip of Helm am  i-4pii  fallow  DARE nrAconn. William Johanna, a 11391.11- tampauted collier, was die victim. While he waa waticias pit a hum-stet» fell  upon him and crushed him. Almost immediately afterwards another atone fell, bury- , rag him completely, and when his body FDA recovered ho was quite dead. Towards the end of the same month—January---two men, in the employ of the British Westinghouse Co., were killed in the Mersey Tunnel while the work of electrilication was being performed. In May there were two regrettable fatalities, both at the Birkenhead Central Station, the victims being Mersey Company's employes, who, while on the permanent way, were knocked down and killed by passing trains. Thu catalogue of accidents received an addition on Saturday, the 6th June. Mr. Cecil Holden (the borough coroner) and three Birkenhead Park cricketing colleagues were returning In a four-wheeled cab from a match at Rook Ferry. When Conway-street . had been reached, the horse bolted and collided with I an electric car standard. The cab was smashed and the four occupants of the vehicle , were all more or less SERIOUSLY INJURED,  the Coroner exceptionally €a. Happily all four recovered. On the 2nd Juno the halcyon village of Broinborough was disturbed by a tragedy in which an Irish harvester met his death. John Connar, aged 19, another Irish farm labourer, who was employed on the same farm, was arrested, and a verdict of manslaughter returned against him by the Coroner's jury. Upon the charge named he was indicted at the next C'he3ter Ase.ines, but acquitted. In February the annual report of the Borough Chief Constable was issued. and proved of a