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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-06-21 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE WHILST OF UNSOUND MLND."  _ A verdict of "Suicide whilst of nn amid midst" wee returned by the Borough Coroner (Mr. Cecil Holden) and a jury at the resumed inquest held on Thursday morning relative to the death of Alfred Albert Pequignot (44), of 3, Grosvenorroad, Birkenhead. Mr. F. Griffin, headmaster of the Birkenhead School, Shrewsbury-road. said that deceased during the latter part of the war had been the French master at ,the school, and was leaving at the end of the present term. For some time past deceased had been suffering from neuralOa, and as a result he was unable to attend to his duties from May3lst till June 3rd. On Thareday, the sth inst.. he attended school, but at 10 a.m. it was dent he was in greet Pain, and wilneo sent •hire home again. In reply to the Coroner. Mr. Griffin said deceased was apparently very depressed. MT. Arthur Jackson said that he was in apartments at dee:parsers residence, and at 8.43 a.m. on Tueeday, the 10th inert., he opened the bathroom door and saw the deceased lying face downwards; in the bath. His head was submerged n the water and he was apparently dead. P.C. Dieresis. who was called to 3. Aroevenor-eoad by the fast witless, said deceased AM dead when he arrived. There were VAXI,IIiiS in the arms anti th.roat, and +ying on the Soar of the bothroom was the blood-stained riescrittdneed. There warn no sign of any str e having taken place. Dr. Bustin' stated that Pequiviot was brought to the hospital about 9.45 art. on the day in question, and it was evident that death had taken place some hours previously. On examining the body he found two cleau cuts, one on each arm, about two inches in length. Neither bed severed the main artery, and consequently were not serious. There was another cut about eight inches tong across the neck which eevered a number of blood-vessels, but not the wind-pipe. Death was due to asphyxia. A verdict as stated above was returned.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-11-26 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

FOUND DEAD .7'7AR GAS STOVE.  rg as Y  A 7 Woman named Esther Jones was found dead at her home. 46. Gladstone-street, on Saturday night, in circumstances which point to suicide. A tragic story was unfolded at the ing of the inquest on Monday, by th 4 Borough Coroner. Mr. Cecil Holden. The deceased woman was a widow, 46 years of age. A month ago her husband. Wm.; Gritty; Axles, was found lying drowned on the Wallasey shore. Shortly afterwards, on November 3rd, the widow was before the maistratca at the Bough Police Court, charged with attempted suicide and was handed over to the care of a ristative.  oPp.nsi  On Saturday morning she bad called at the shop of her sister-in-law, and said that she would be coming round later on. She did not do so, and her relatives became a little anxious. In the evening her brother-in-law, John Henry Jones, of 78, Bentinek-street, wont round to her house, but got no response to his knock-tog, and saw no lights burning within. He borrowed a neigh .Wur's key and entered the house. There was a strung smell of gam in the kitchen. It became very strong on opening the door leading to the back kitchen and Jones and the neighbour bed to leave the house. They returned with Sergeant Harwood, who turned the gas of at the meta, and opened the window. Deceased was lying on the floor of the back kitchen, her heal resting upon a piece at carpet near to the gas stove. The two taps of the stove were turned on. The police sergeant applied arttheisl respiration, but when deceased arrived in the ambulance at the Borough Hospital, life was found to be extinct.  Th  --Evidence to this effect was given by the brother-in-law at Monday's inquest. About ts yews age, he said, deceased became sthse in tar manner and was sent to the 'avatar Asyknia. She was detained there for about six nandthe, and Since then had enjoyed fairly good health until the death of Mar husband a month ago, silk}, mad, her eery worried. The inquest woe adjourned until dag pest.  ltion-1
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-08-27 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

CLIO  "I AM SICK OF LIVING."  A 19-year-old girl Harriett M• 1. 4 Prim-street. who on Thursday threw htpelf into the Mersey—preeumahly fine she Woodside landing-stage—was brought et at the Borough Police Court. on Satinet, Were Alderman G. A. Folly irbairtam and Mr. W-H B Yen, charged with anent ing to commit suicide. She looked Pale"' rather frail in health. Joseph Goodlow. 17. Tyrer.strat. a el+ man on the Corporatann luggage br44. "Prenton," said that. about 5 PAU, Thureday, he was on that bc.at and herr a Shout that. "a girl was in the rivet.' H. ran tosthe side and saw the prisoner a the water, and he jumped in 9.lrodloer fulls dee-aged at the time), swam to and hold e her. He held her up until atta could be thrown to them, when they atm drawn to the stage and pulled nut. , Canine, who ran to the stage assisted to get Goodlow and the girl eat a the water. said he afterwards telephoned. rt an ambulance, meanwhile readenng li aid to Male; who was, taken to the lloreaM Hospital as soon as the ambulane• anted. On searching the prisoner's defile 0 found the note now produced, urd shes 4 charged her that (Saturday) ini,rnine rt.b attempting suinide, she replied--I a temper." The note, which wag handed to the mare' trate*. read "Dear Mother.-1 am doing this berelm you told me to do it. I am sick et 11,31. Yon are always shouting at me. So 0'441 ' your broken-hearted daughter. Barnett. The prisoner's mother la widowi called forward, and in answer to the Otteman, who asked her it she had el quarrel with. )er daughter on the Thursdat• Ole said. "Weil, not exactly." Fertl','l questioned, she said the girl WB, a atria:: and had been under serious epergnes., tt: that had prevented her from wnrktaa st: had to go again to the hospital in Ihtm weeks. i• • gel The Chairman: She earl 70u "er' been treating her kindly. Witness: r haven't been unkind to has , In answer to Supt. Jones. she dented she was 'always shouting,- at tad daughter. It transpired that before the opera sto became necessasy the prisoner was rw' ployed as a dressmaker by a lecal trade'; MM. She was getting Sr. per itself ou4. work pay at present. On the mother promising to take bet heck home, and the. girl giving a Wirt': Dot to commit such an act again. she discharged. Miss Toogood (Probatica Officer) being asked to see her fernier PP.: Vets u to work being again found rw Vets  ~. The magistrates warmly comPlim""'d Goodlow on bib courageous conduct, iod awarded him les. in recognition thereot; and Supt. Jones said Goodlow's act saving the girl would be brought to lb! notice ot the Liverpool Shipwreck Ong Humane Society. . --...  The finesT--'-disptay or Dianio- ads. Jewel' Lops. LtcLu,chid,,,tmet, Lirerpoaar.! and Siker ran be seen at Masher and Saturday, for the Proprietors Printed and Polsirshed evert Nved,"66°Y and J R.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1919-12-31 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SOLDIER'S- DISTRESSING SUICIDE.  A sad story v7aliiii-loTried at the Coroner's Court on 313csiday last. It minconied a man—an ex-solther--who had returned from the Army to find that his wife had proved umfaithful, that his little boy, a enikl of ai years, Wag seriously ill, and indeed died on the day of his return home, and that some difficulty had arisen over his back-pay. The strain so completely depressed him that his mind utterly gave way, and he took measures to end his existence by hanging himself in his room.  At the inquest, which Wa.S held before the Borough Coroner (Mr. Cecil Holden), on Monday last, his wife. Mrs. Cocilia Roscoe, of 42. Queensbury-etreet, slated that prior to the war her husband had 'been a marine fireman. Ile joined the 'Army at the outbreak of war, and served on various fronts. On the day he esme' home his 61-year-old son died, and he also discovered that witness had had an iliegitiniate child during his absence. }or this, lbwever, he forgave her. Far a considerable time after this he had much diffioulty in obtaining his back-pay, and several credits due to him from India. On the 20th inst., after dinner, he announced that he was. going upstairs to sleep. At 4.90 p.m. his sistweinstaw, Annie Ransham, went to tail him to come for his tea, and receiving no answer went into the room, and ticrher horror saw deceased sitting up in bed with a rope, attached to a nail in the wall, round his neck. She screamed and brought Mrs. Roscoe in, end together they obtained ea/inanee from a neighbour, who out the bcdy down. P.C. A 5 (John Davies) said that hewn, called to the house about 4.30 p.m., and found deceased lying on the bed, his face was discoloured. He applied artificial respiration, but without avail, and when &ceased 1,7803 conveyed to the Borough Hospital Dr. Wadis.- found tifo. to %, extinct,  The Coroner returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily imam."
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-12-01 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SAD SUICIDE IN A STABLE.  STRANGE CONDUCT AT THE INQUEST.  On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Chester Arms Hotel, before Mr. Chnrton, district coroner, on the body of a carter named William Griffiths, SS years of age, residing at 29, Oliver street. It appeared from the evidence that about four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, the deceased was seen by his nephew, John Crawford, 25, Oliver-street, going in the direction of the stables in Tunuel-road, when his horses were kept. About half-past sit another carter named Benjamin Rohm, who lives at 54, Jackson-street, went into the stables and found the deceased hanging, with a rope round his neck, and quite dead. Ho sent for P.C. 30 (Barns), who, R hen be Caine. cut the deceased down--The brother of the deceased, Robert Griffiths, was called for the purpose of identifying the body. Ha was ion about to be sworn when the Coroner's beadle (Inspector Glass) informed the Coroner that the man had had too much drink. Griffiths then began talking excitedly and loudly, but WRS ordered by the Coroner to leave the room: he ought to be ashamed of himself for coming there in such a state. Griffithe replied, "I am not drunk; I am more put about then that." —The sister of the deceased, Arm Bywater, was then called, and she proved the identity of the deceased. She also Meted that she had that morning received a letter by post, stating that he left her all his proeeftY and goods. The letter was witnessed by man named Foulkes.—Other evidence showed that the deceased had been given to &Min* and that the letter alluded to was written in the Birkenhead Arms, Chester-street, about four o'clock, shortly before the deceased hul4 himself—The Coroner, in summing P. sol there was no doubt that the deceased was men very much given to drinking, but that on the day in question he was grate sober. It was not clear that the insanity from which the deceased suffered was brought on by drinking.— After a short deliberation, jury returned a verdict of "Suicide wlulst suffering from temporary insanity."
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-11-21 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

BOROUOII MICE COURT .  SATURDAY. (Before C. Singleton and G. Atkin.) A "BLAcx" Cnartaorza. Elizabeth Black, a woman of ill-fame, living in Egerton.street, was brought up charged with being drunk and Ms orderly.—P.C. 32 (Hunt) found the pria.ner in argyle-street causing a disturbance, and as she had many times previously been convicted she was now sent to gaol with hard labour for one month, Arresters° limardc.—Mary Willman, a young woman, was charged on remand with atto pting to commit suicide. It will be remembered that on Thursday evening she jumped into the river off the Rock Ferry Slip, as stated in the News of Saturday last. When previously before the magistrates 51e said she was sorry she was not drowned—The girl's Parents, an aged (maple, residing at Rose Cottage Liscard-road, Setwombe, now appeared, and give them daughter an excellent character, and 4uper intendant Clarke informed the Bench that prisoner's employer was willing to take charge of her, she had of late been strange In her manner.—Prisoner: "I am sorry for what I have done." She said in answer to their worships that she would go back to her parents if allowed.—After promising never lode anything oh the kind again site was discharged. ILLesiAL ELEDoIsO.—A men named John Prance of Rowland street, was chari„, with stea g 4 macintosh overcoat, the property u. Joseph Rea field, E Mock, Qtteen's-bullrlings. From the evidence given it seemed that some thn , ago promeator and the prisoner were crossing over from Liverpool le one of the ferry luggage boats when the fanner took off hi.- overcoat, and when he came to look for it shortly afterwards It was gone, an was also the prisoner and his lorry. The cat was submatiently found 1 have been pawned at Mr. Wait'i shop Price street, by prisoner's wife for 3s. prigow pleaded that he did not steal the coat, hes teede enquiries and not finding an owner he pledged the coat for • couple of days.— The Bench remarked that prisoner knew the coat was not his OWII, and he would have to pay and costs for illegally pledging, or in default, one niontlis imprisonment.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-09-05 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

STRIKE. Beker : So a poor wretch has at last ....,eeded in committing suicide in the Bridewell. Perhaps, the authoriP" win now endeavour to take the preid • which they were urged to take ttali° ...time ago. o;ol.ter What can they do more than los vjen done? The cells have over tiderer been seen by the Government „ector, who has on every occasion his unqualified satisfaction I:ior:them, Clearly, then, no responsi. tir for what has happened can rest on ty Watch Committee. gsrker : Yet it has been given in eviwo by a police-constable that there tree ways in which a person may toms suicide in the bridewell cells, 0, by tying a cord to the bell handle, 00 the ring in the wall to which out prisoners are tied, or to the os kw ventilator. Is that a state of ogs which ought to be tolerated for a os moment? snorter : What would you do? Surely lido not mean to argue that every cell obe Main Bridewell ought to be control into a padded room? iirker : No, I am not prepared to go tbr as that; but I should decline to out desperate prisoners with the gips of self-destruction. somber : However careful you may sfie determined would-be suicide will oetimes outwit you. As the Coroner oinked on Monday, there have been Fess who have carefully collected eery little bit of thread, month after ma and year after year, until they to got together enough to make a ge, upon which they have set to work isrl hanged themselves. How can such liliduals be satisfactorily dealt with jei police cell? They will even con. the skilful and experienced attendma in a lunatic asylum. Barker: Quite so. Bat Ido not ober that poor Parry was one of that cecies. The impulse to commit suicide an in his case, I believe, a momentary ge , Three times did he ask to see a War, and three times was his request  Snorter: But we are told that drunken persone nearly always want to see a keter or a magistrate to certify that tsey are not drunk. Barker: That is a police story. Snorter: Yet none the less true on that account. It would be ridiculous for every demand of a drunken prisoner to be complied with. Barker: Still, I'm convinced that if poor Parry had been permitted to see a doctor he would not have hanged himrelf.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-09-05 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

KINDLY SOLICIT= AT 145, PRICICESTREMT, AND 451, 8080110411 ROAD.  Ewen Puarrnsi.—Woodcoek's Ts, Quassia, and Quinine. This well. own remedy purifies the blood, strengthens the whole systeme.i  lurisnernto TO Szuconsu.—Por al kinds of Piaui and Fihnoy Confectionery and Pure Homo-made Brood, go to Elmisrtsup's, 28, Brightowotroot (two doors from Poet-oflice).  • , 4 . i ' 117 A • _ _ 'ltil.. , , ._ ,__________________ ......._ . _a • . , ' ';':'l,•.l , I 1 ' ' "oi -LA-- i 6 ti • ,-- a . ~ , _  Snorter: The doctor could have done nothing for him if he had seen him. Barker: On the contrary, he might have calmed him.  Snorter: You forget that Parry was a confirmed drunkard, that he had no hed residence, and that he did no egolu work; in a word, that he was (te of those lost men who wander about 'host demented, through the effects of 6eir own vices, and are at times in a %kiwi of such utter wretchedness :hat they regard life as a cursed thing be got rid of. as quickly as possible.  Barker: Well, I remember that three nes in the course of a fortnight have ttons tried to commit suicide in the bridewell and that one of them i 4 succeeded in accomplishing his 14ous purpose. Can you or any. else get over the dreadful signifi.  bte of that terrible fact ? riorter : Accidents will happen in the  let•regulated establishments. Barker: Aye; that is just what we ray expect to hear Alderman Evans st the meeting of the Town Council korrow afternoon. Nevertheless, I ttare to prophesy that what has hap. ited will lead to something being done lasend what is wrong. Snorter Ido hope that no attempt till be made to get up another scare. ter the many thousands of pounds tit have been expended upon the !ftians House, I decline to think that alB it 10 y way incomplete. Barker: What a grand member of the loteh Committee you would make 'lnlatever is is right" is a fine old lis°l7, and it has evidently a firm and tilsistent advocate in you. But wait /41 you learn what the independent 4„tePayers think of the 'police cells and '!e facilities they offer for seltdestrucIlk November is drawing near, and Ittla 'flay depend that October will not allowed to pass without our hearing a great deal of what has happened. Snorter perhaps the Ratepayers' iteciation willltake the Kase up. Barker : What do you think of the bailermakers' strike? IS.norter : I don't know what to think a_ll, for I am entirely in the dark as to °lents of the dispute between the 'auers and the men. But, though I km, ot tell whom to blame, I regard the ne as a catastrophe, which will result 'illleavy lose to all concerned. arker : I am pretty much in the 74 Position. I cannot pretend to 1114:6 between the masters and the men. ,(3131,1 be sorry to say an unkind word a 2,1" ther. But I can only look on the Zfe as a gigantic mistake, which will anOther heavy blow at the trade of teke,,head. stiorter : I understand that Lairds' is
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1918-11-06 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

NHRVOUB DEPREION. .• • • The Borough Coroner (Mr. Cecil Hoiden) !ireld an • inquest on Thursitay afternoon, on j the body of Joseph Porter, aged 59, a. postal sorting clerk and telegraphist, who ! lived at 669, Horongh-roan, with his danghter and son-M -law, Mr. Geo. Malpae, a coal merchant. ' The dissaaed had been depressed for some time end had been treated by Dr. Grinrshaw,_ bat • had not been away from. his -office. On the 29th ult, "Mrs.. and Miss Peetsr west\ out leavireg deceased atone. About three hours later 31r. Malpae vamp home •and findiug that -both the front .and back doors. were ioeked"ort the inside; went for assistance, smashed a pane of glass in the see:Herr window and thus gained admittance. Ire noticed a strong- easiell of gag on entering the scullery. He and his -brother, for whom' he 'bad tone in the • first place, made a sea.reh of the house and farad the deceased in the cupboard: untier_the stairs, in which was the gas. meter. He was lying on the floor with hie-errn around the mAer. and the gem - was escaping from a teed pipe which bad been brOken in half. Mr. Malpas sent for -Dr. Davidson, who came immediately, only to had Mr. Porter deed. Dr. IS'avidison,' giving evidence,- said that the cause 0f death was asphyxia: raneeqnent on the inhalation of coal gas, and that deceased had been dead about 2 or 3, hours before he saw him. He had attended him about four months previous for bron chial trouble, and he then seemed to be in a very nervous condition. Mr. Geo. Mabee, said that his lather-inlaw had been depreeeed ever- since .tine of his SO/16 loft Englead for service in Mesopotamia. .Di John Grimehaw said he first attended Mr. Porter about fifteen years ago. Then he was in a very dePreased state. He had been corning .to as ham se'he was stiffening from nervous palpitation at • eight which caused him great lose of sleep. On Monday , deceased asked him if. he actrieed him to give up his work, ae his post-master had suggested. He did not want to do so because he said, be won'ti like to have eomethiest on which to keep his mind. He appeared relieved when he (witness) agreed-1 that :be would be better to continue with his work in which he was quite happy. From the deceased's statement that he was fighting an obsession and thought that he would do something dreadful to himself, he could say with conviction that he committed suicide whilst tempore.rily insane. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1918-05-08 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

DAY BY DAY.  Yeeterday waa the third anniverserY the sinking of the Lusitania.  At a plebiscite in Dewsbury on prohibt. tton 13,801 votes were recorded in favour oi adoption during the war.  Mr. Walter Hudson, M.P.. urges that the manufacture of drink ought to b.IN4 been stopped from the bninntrg of al war.  • • • • The award of the Committee on Prodna tion to trans-port workers throughout tl,t country hats met with great favour alflnnA4 the Liverpool dockers. _ _  - • • • • Two women. Josephine Alvarez and Vie, torine Traucher, who were condemned la death on January 25 for spying were ese. cuted at Nantes.  • • • • The neutral visitor who has been sounding British opinion and incidentally disclosed the grerst fear of Germany's Chartage of raw material after the war, is said to have -left for Holland. He hakes reth him no doubt as to the state of *eating in this country, and what he has to WI his German friends may remove some of their delusions. _  * * • •  At the next general election official Labour party ea_ndidates will mutest al tne University seats in Great Britain. Mr. Sidney Webb's selection for 'onfim versity has already been announced; emelt. dates for Oxford, Cambridge. ritd Aberdeen have been either adopted or prolsionally approved. _ _  The war has brought with it a definite decline in the proportion of suicicks to the population. Among males else rate per million living was 157 in the ten years ending 1910, 151 in 1914, and 104 in 1115; in 1916 it was a little 'higher—ill. The rate of suicide among women showed a fall from 47 in the years 1901-10 to tt..5 is 1914 and 1915, and S in 1918.  In the House of Commons QD Mondy Sir A. Stanley, replying to Mr. Alden. said in connection with the new scheme of ciial rationing. he was considering whether it would not be practicable to' take into d(count the consumption of gas for hooting and cooking purposes, but be must w.irs householders whether they used it in th• form of coal or gas, a material reduction of consumption was absolutely neceissary.