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Widnes Examiner. — 1893-02-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SAD SUICIDE AT RUNCORN.  PATHETIC LETTER.  ------- A shocking suicide occurred at Runcorn, on Monday. On arriving at his home, 46, Bridge-st. about six o'clock on Monday evening, Charles driffiths found his two young children crying in the yard, and exclaiming" Oh, my mamma! " He then saw his wife suspended by a rope from a nail in the 'wall of a passage leading into the yard. He immediately fetched P.C. Juett, who is a neighbour, and that officer at once cut down the woman. She was, however, quite dead. She had apparently stood on a chair and then kicked it from under her. The deceased was only 26 years of age, and was the mother of two children, aged respectively six dna three years.—Mr.Worsley, coroner, held the inquest on Wednesday. The husband said the deceased had complained terribly of her head lately, and she had talked very funnily to him. She had never threatened to take away her life. He found the following letter on the mantlepiece in the kitchen.—" Dear Charley,—Tell father to put me in a grave. You have been a good husband to me: I cannot live any longer, take it as light as you can: I know it will be hard to bear. I should be a burden to you ; be good to Charley, and you, my darling husband, keep all my things. I am sorry for you. I know you have nothing but mother has me in a club; she will help you. I will meet you all in that land above. Good-bye to all. Good-bye, goodbye my loving husband. It will upset father and mother. Tell them to bear it as well as they can, lam out of my mind." Witness said he had been employed at Mathieson's Works, Widnos, for three years, and he had always given his wife plenty of money. He could not account for his wife taking her life in the slightest. He never thought it necessary to call in a doctor, because she never gave up.—Mrs. Annie Juett, wife of a police constable, said the deceased had complained to her about her head being bad. She was with the deceased shortly after five o'clock, and she appeared to be in her usual condition then.—The Coroner said it was the saddest case he had heard in his long experience as coroner. He thought the woman had committed the rash deed through trouble in her head, and there could be no doubt that she was of unsound miad at the time.— Mr. W. H. Rogerson, foreman, said Griffiths was one of his Sunday school scholars, and he was sure he was expressing the feelings of the jury when he said they deeply sympathised with him. The verdict recorded was that the deceased committed suicide whilst tempor insane.  At Bolton, on Thursday, two local barbers, named Charles Thompson and Henry. Battersbv, were summoned under an old Act of Charles 11. for shming on the Lord's Day. The Act, which is 300 years old,en icts that no worldly labour, works of necessity and charity excepted, should be performed on the Lorils Day. The Act has never been repealed. One of the defendants had been fined before. Both were again fined. KAY'S Courouxn, a demulcent anodyne expectoront for Coughs.and Colds, 94., 130. Of all Chenaists.—Advt.  X ..... . ........ _..„
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-09-09 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SAD SUICIDE 07 A CHESHIRE  SERVANT.  EARLY LOVE TROUBLES. Mr. Blunt, Deputy-Coroner for the Knutsford Division of Cheshire, held an inquest on Thursday at Mr. Arthur Ford's farm, High Legh, on the body of Catherine Chorlton, twenty years of age, a domestic servant. Mrs. Jane Cherlton, mother of the deceased, said her daughter cane to spend Sunday and Monday with her. She went to meet her sweetheart on the Sunday evening, but he did not turn up. DPCPASed left on Monday afternoon to return to her sister in Bowdon. About a .foitnight age she, had been very fretful, as her young man, Jos' I:0 Simpson, had been ill and told her he was falling iuto connimption. She had asked him to meet her at he! mother's house last Sunday, and he protnked to do so it he vere well enough. 11-ceasad had been weak for seise time back and had been unnerved by nursing a neighbour who was suffering from brain fever. Wm. Chorltql gave evidence of finding the body of deceased in a Pit 150 yards from her parent's door. Harriet Swindles. Bowdon, said deceased returned to her Imuse on It'•1 sr afternoon and seemed upset. During Tuesday she waS very hurried and excited at her work, and in the aUernoon witness heard the front door close, and looking 00° of the window saw deceased hurrying away. Witness went to decea.ed's room and found a letter. •• All re& things are for my dear mother. This is the earl of a my troubles." Particularly during the past fortnight deceased had been very fretful. She was not a strong nerved girl, but apparently was striving hard t ) bear OP against her troubles. She was a very faithful and loc.& able girl.—Joseph Simpson, groom to Mr. T. P. Norrig• Lymm, said he had been keeping company with the deceased for the last eighteen months. She was veil fond of him, and there had not been any coolness on hi,,S part. He had been ill lately with bronchitis, and ha' on one or two occasions, for that reason, riot been able to fulfil his trysts with her, but he apprised her of it by letter. He could not account for her troubles, unless it was on account of his illness.—The jury returned a ver" dict of" Suicide whilst temporarily insane."
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-02-25 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SIR WILFRID LAWSON AND LIQUOR  LEGLSLAIION.  PRESENTATION TO LADY LAWSON. The portrait of Sir Wilfred Lawson, the gift of the members of the United Kingdom Alliance,was presented on Thursnay to Lady Lawson by Archdeacon Farrar at a meeting of the London Auxiliary at the Mansion House. Sir Wilfred Lawson accepted the gift and the address accompanying it as evidence of the interest now taken in the temperance movement. He was, he said, often styled the" Apostle of Temperance," but he was not a greater advocate of temperance than anybody else. Everybody was an advocate of temperance now, the licensed victualler especially. Mr. Goschen and Mr. Ritchie were apostles of temperance. They brought in bills which they thought would promote temperance,but other people thought they would not. All he had done was to advocate the control of liquor traffic. In the present Parliament they had a majority pledged to vote in their favour, ano the Government, he believed, would bring in an upright, straightforward bill. If they only introduced a halting measure it r,would be a source of misery and disaster to them.  KWS COMPOUND, for Coughs and Co'ds. Asthma and Bronchitis are relieved by it, 91-cl. 130. &c.—Advt. Vernon George Crowe, a boy of 14, living with. his father at 32, Pool-road, Egremont, committed suicide on Wednesday afternoon because his father had interfered with his courtship of a girl about the same age. Tax !!JPULAR BEVERAGE tor Breakfast, Luncheon, Tea Ind Supper in all seasons is CADBURY'S Cocoa. —Comforting strengthening, nourishing—for old and young, robust and feeble. CADBURY'S COCOA is absolutely pure.—Advt. The body of a well-dressed man has been found on the Stretton Hills, twelve miles from Shrewsbury, under circumstances suggestive of death from exposure.  The Royal Laundresses say Critehley's " STARCH GLOSS is unequalled for Imparting a beautifnl finish to starched l•nen, &c., either cold or boiling water starch. Mr.—, Cornwall, says :—•' My wife will not finish our linen without your "Starch Gloss.'" From Mrs. —, Bradford : "Dear sir,— I am pleased to inform you that I have tried many so-called Starch Glazes and Polishes, but find none equal to yours." It should be used in every house. Sold at Id., 3d., and 6d., by most starch selles. If not in stock will procure it. T. Blseigbnrn. P:oprietor.—Adrt.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-07-15 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THE CELLS. __  At the i2;;l:i7ai(;:iinh--.6-1-liiVednesday,  before Mr. John fairclough (in the chair) and Alderrmin Chandley„ Ann Bendell, wife of James Brndell, lodging at Daley's lodging house, was charged with stealing a &beet, value 3s. 2d. Prisoner was also charged with attempting to commit suicide in the police cells. Mr. Hunt said Mr. Daley handed a pawn-ticket for a sheet to .I?.C. Clarke, wkich had been pledged at Mr. Jackson's Church-street. It was ascertained that the daughter of ' the prisoner had been sent to pledge it by her mother. The prisoner was brought to the police station, and searched, when a table knife was found upon her. Soon after being locked up P.C. Baxendale went to the cell and found a handkerchief tied very securely round her neck. It was with some difficulty he untied it, and it was with some time before she came round. She afterwards told Sergeant Chantler that she did not intend to steal the sheet. She pawned it in order to get something for her husband's dinner, and that she " would have been a dead un " had not the officer stopped her.  James Daley said the prisoner's husband. ever since he came to live at his house had been a hard-working man. The sheet had been pawned by the prisoner for the purpose of getting drink. The children were never short of food. Her husband dare not give her money as she west to the public-house. The Bench were of the opinion that drink was at the bottom of it all, and sent her to nrison for 14(days. AN UNHAPPY MAnnianE. James McCarthy. was charged at the Borough Court. on Wednesday. with having on the 19th June unlawfully assaulted and beaten his wife. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. My. A. Browne represented the plaintiff. He said the prisoner was summoned to appear previously, but did not put in an appearance. The defendant was a striker at Mr. Long's tannery, 'I helwall, and earned from 28s. to 325. per week. He was married in 1887. but his wife, owing to his conduct, had lived four years away from him. On the 19th June the defendant instead of going to his work returned home drunk, and attempted 0 choke his wife. She afterwards went out and he locked the door against her, and she went to her sister's house. On the following day he sold the furniture, and had spent the money in drink. On the Saturday night previous to this assault she had to fight him the whole night to keep him from throttling her, and when she spoke to him of his conduct the next morning, he filled his mouth with milk and spat it on her face. He asked for a separation order. Mrs. McCarthy corro hrirated Mr. Browne' s statement.—Mrs. Stcckton, mother of the complainant, said she had provided them with two houses of furniture. Her daughter had been unable to live with McCarthy, and had left him several times. The magistrates committed the prisoner to gaol for 14 days, and made a separation order, the prisoner to contribute 10a. per week towards the maintenance of his wife and child.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-05-06 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

EXTENSIVE THEFTS BY YOUTHS.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  Walter Smith and John Syerett, two youths, were charged at the Warrington Occasional Court, on Tuesday, before the Mayor (Alderman E. Greenall) with stealing on Alonday, the 24th April, at Latchford, a gold albert guard, valued at ..E7 75., a silk handkerchief, value 75., and .£7 in money, the property of Richard King, employed on the ship canal, and living at Thelwall-lane, Latchford. The prisoner Smith was brother to King's housekeeper, and be (Smith) and Syerett had been staying with him, but on Tuesday morning week the two lads left the house suddenly. On the following Thursday the small hamper in which the money was kept was found lying in the ashbin. This led to King's box, in which the money and clothes were kept, being searched, when it was found to have been ransacked. The two prisoners were apprehended in Shrewsbury through endeavouring to pawn for 30s. the gold chain and a metal watch which they had bought. All the money was gone. The complainant identified the articles as his property, and said he saw them in his box on Sunday the 23rd inst. He first missed them on Thursday the 25th. lie kept them in his clothes box, in the kitchen. The police applied for a remand until the next Daresbury Sessions, bail being allowed in sureties of £25 each.  At the same coart Mary Ann Smith, siostermaoyf losnt,eaotf the prisoners was charged with having n the complainant's house taken some poison with intent to kill herself. Richard King said the woman was his housekeeper and had been in his employ for 17 months. she went to the doctor for some medicine for skin disease, and he gave her about a pint of lotion, for outward use, and she drank the whole of it. He thought the stealing case had prayed on her mind. Miss Blackhurst and the Rev. B. B. Prescott had offered to get her to the Cancer and Skin Diseases Hospital, in Liverpool. The case was dismissed on the understanding that the woman would be taken to the hospital.  DO NOT NEGLECT! Sufferers from Gravel, Lumbago, Piles, Pains in the Back, Dropsy, Wind and Water Complaints, Diseases of Kidneys, Bladder, Urinary Organs, Stone, Meet, Stricture, Sciatica, Rheumatism, and Gout, will find a positive cure in Holdroyd's Gravel Pills. Try a small box, and If not satisfied your money will be returned. Price is lid. Of all chemists, or post free for 12 stamps from BOLDBOYD'S Medical Hall, Cleckheaton, Yorks. Don't be put off. If you cannot get them write to the Proprietor, and box will be sent next post.—Advt.
Widnes Examiner. — 1893-05-20 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

SUICIDE OF A LIVERPOOL MAN  AT ST. HELENS.  A respectably-dressed young man, supposed to be William Lloyd, of 134, Tunnel-road, Edge-hill, Liverpool, was found dead in a retiring room at St. Helens Station on Monday. The man was lying on his side on the floor. The body was warm but dead. It was carried to the waiting-room, and Dr. Jackson, the company's local surgeon, sent for. The doctor stated that deceased had died from poisoning. On inquiry at 134, Tunnel-road, Edge-hill, it was found that the deceased's name was William Lloyd. aged twenty-one, an apprentice at Messrs. Rockliffe Bros., stationers, Castle-st., Liverpool. Mr. and Mrs. Power reside at the above address, and deceased had lived with and been brought up by them from a child. He is described as having been a quiet youth, and nothing can be stated as to the reason for the condition in which he was found. He was at business on Monday morning, but left about eleven o'clock, and his friends heard nothing of him until about three o'clock on Tuesday morning when a railway official came to make inquiries. He has a mother living at Formby.  At St. Helens Town Hall,on Wednesday, Mr.Brighouse held an inquest on the body of William Lloyd.—Dr.Robt. Jackson, who was called to the station' said he found that Lloyd was dead. He examined the body, and came to the conclusion that in all probability he had died from carbolic acid poisoning.—Police-constable John Hall, who took chalge of the body, produced a number of papers which were in the clothing.—The Coroner examined them' and said there was a paper called the " Racing World," and attached to it was a reckoner to show the prices; a list of horses cut from a newspaper, and a list which he seemed to have made in his own handwriting of horses and their ages ; then there wan a list cf "horses worth following," and the names of their trainers. There was also a pocket book with sums of money entered to horses, and a paper which seemed to be a tip from someone who knew all the winners. It looked yew much as if he was given to betting.—Mr. James Power, of 134, Tunnel-road, Edgehill, said the deceased had lived with him for about ten years. He (witness) was a compositor at Rockcliffe Brothers. The deceased was at work up to dinner time on Monday, but he did not return in the afternoon. The deceased was a quiet young fellow. Witness did not know he was given to betting. He did not know that he was in monetary difficulties. The deceased never mentioned anything about betting to him.—The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict that Lloyd committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind.
Widnes Examiner. — 1905-05-27 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

FIN'ANC IAJ STITEM ENTS. Mr. R. Arn INSON (the treasurer) submitted the annual' financial statement. The total income of the societi had been £l2l 2. Old., leaving a balance of Is. o,ld. hand. Mr. R. l‘ftr.r.s presented his absentees report of visi— tations, stating that over 500 visits had been made. Mr. J. 0 wEs (Benevolent Fund secretary) said hobs& made a large number of visits to needy brethren. which' were greatly appreciated. The SEC 214 CARY of the Sick Club submitted a pleasing report. After meeting all liabilities they paid out dividend of ss. to its members, and had a good balance' carried forward. -  All the reports were adopred.—The Rev. John Yonge was re-elected president ; Mr B. Farrar. general secret tary ; Mr. 1. Atkinson. treasurer ; 11r. A. Cotterili,.. rmiistration secretary; Ir. R. Mills, abseutee secretal Mr..f. Owen, Benevolent Fund secretary and treasurer , Me srs. W. and El. Farrar, markers ; kessrs. J. Tank' ford, T. Wood, and J. Dutton. stewards ; geneml COP,: mittee, Messrs 1 Evans. G. Donaldson, W. Beswic,"? G. Wallington, J. Bailey, W. Crosskill, A, Healey, G. Smiley. E. Smith, J. Sirucock, J. Garner, G. Colley, Cotton, J. Dobbins. J. R. Palmer, J. Grestv, J. West, 1" Riley, G. Ford, W. Sparkes, IT. Taker, .W. Miles,„,"' Hewitt, T. Ellison, H. Mcliachern. %W.Greeuleaves, Donald  Determined Suicide at Sankey. „ On Friday evening last week James Jay (11), playing near the St. -Helens and Sankey Canal iv1.,„.10. he saw a nnn deliberately jump into the canal. raisel the alarm and the body was recovered shortly, H afterwards, and artificial respiration tried but without avail. The body was identified as that of John Moo OH under-hand puddler, who lived at Booth-stre Warrington.—At the inquest which was held on Tao" day William Box, 3, Booth-etreet, stated that 01? deceased had noi heen well for sonutime, and haa complained of " something being the matter with 117 chest." He bad been drinking heavily, and he hi' heard him threaten to take poison, but not to drol himself. A verdict of " Suicide whilst :of unsoup" mind " was returned.
Widnes Examiner. — 1905-03-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

THINGS TO PLAN' WITH. When he sent an armed mission into Thibet, he called it a peaceful mission. When he passed an Education Act in the interests of the Church of Engl*nd ha called it a boon to Nonconformists. (Laughter.) When he passed a Licensing Act which gave a great bribe to the trade, he called it a tribute to eternal justice. (Laughter.) When he sanctioned a regulation for virtual slavery in the Transvaal he called it indentured labour ; and when be ruined the sugar trade he called it broadening the area of sugar cultivation. (Laughter.) When he advocated suicidal retaliation ho called it freedom of negotiation; when he did not want to say Protection he called it freer trade; and when he did not ! want to talk of a tariff arrangement as a tax upon the people he called it a toll upon the foreigner. (Laughter.) ' He (Dr. Massie) wondered what they would have next. One felt inclined to suppose that Mr. Balfour might call an invasion by a burglar of a private house a polite call after dinner. (Loud laughter.) When a man used words simply as counters to which he might give what value he pleased, he was a dangerous man, and when he , was the leader of a party in the House of Commons he was a man perilous to the country. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Balfour's tactics went far to justify those people who spoke of politics as simply a trade. He (the speaker) got sick of hearing of the subtle and indefinable charm of Mr. Balfour's manner: he got tired of hearing what a good fellow he was at the bottom. Oae knew many good fellows at the bottom who were perfectly worthless at the top. (Laughter.) They were told that  MR.
Widnes Examiner. — 1905-06-24 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

PEPTOLAXA." year? Putting aside the horrible risks that must be Peptolaxa tablets are just what every mother needs to faced upon the Auvergne Circuit, it must be remem- keep her little ones healthy, happy, and good. They bered that, should tragedy mark the proceedings in crumble easily, and may be safely given to the youngest July, the effects upon motorists as a class will be infant.un Peptelaxr.4 takes the place of _ all drastic, overwhelming. Public prejudice, thanks to the unpleasant medicines. A smile in every dose, teething time included. d. Sample sent free by Dr. Williams' thoughtless and unskilful driving of a selfish few, is Aledicine Co. , Holborn-viaduct, London. Sold at Is lld already very strong against automobilism in general ; at all branches of Boots', Cash Chemists; at all Taylors' it needs but a repetition of the Paris-Madrid disaster Drug Stores, of a couple of years ago to bring popular resentment to such a pitch that motoring will be made practically , impossible for even the best, the most careful and the 1 Same . • most considerate drivers, who ever held a steering- Mr. S. Brighouse held an inquest on Saturday on "The End as Her Husband." wheel, I the body of Mrs. Sarah Marsh, aged 62 years, widow --- lof the late Councillor Robert William Marsh, who I resided at 23, Arpley-street, and was found hanging in the kitchen on Thursday;—Mary Elizabeth Johuson a general servant in the employ of the deceased. said deceased retired to bed at eleven o'clock on Wednesday. night. At a quarter to seven the next morning, she found her hanging by the neck from a cord attached to a hook in the back kitchen. Witness called in a police officer, who cut the body down. About two . months ago, deceased remarked that she thought her ---- i end would be like that of her husband,who also hanged We learn that the Motor Car Company (1905) Ltd, himself. She had been very peculiar in her mind for are e.N.tending their already large sphere of usefulness some time, and had been drinking very heavily.—P,C, by dealing in second-hand cars which, by the time Hayes said he was called in to the deceased's house, these lines appear in pr,int, will be on view at their and he cut the body down. Dr. Joseph was sent for premises in Shaftesbury-avenue. An important point and he found life to be extinct.—The jury returned a verdict of" Suicide whilst of unsound mind."  "The high-powered tri-car has come to stop," declared an enthusiast a week or so ago in the column of motor notes he contribates to a weekly periodical. "The high-powered tri-car has,undoubtedly come to stop," reiterated a believer in motor cycles of mbderate b.p, when he saw that writer hopelessly out of the London to Edinburgh Whitsun ride at one Of the controls, but still battling with a comatose tri-car that refused to budge an inch.  DAINTY SANIPI_JE