Widnes Examiner. — 1893-04-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

INQUESTS AT WIDNES.  Yesterday Mr. S. Brighouse, county coroner, held imposts at VVi.ines.  On the body of Noah Lamb, 24 years of age, labourer, of 46, Viaduct-st., who committed suicide by haogimr on Wednesday morning. The deceased got up at halfpast six to go to his work as usual and an hour later he ,Aas found iu the water closet at the back of the house suspenced from the rafter by a clothes line.—P.C. Cr:inshaw cut the body down, which was warm at the time, but life was extinct. The clothes line was wrapped round the man's neck fivefold and fastened by a running noose. His toes touched the ground, but his knees were drawn up, showing that the deceased had acted with great determination. A brother stated that the deceased had been strange in his manner since the death ot his father and Innther.—The jury returned a verdict of sukido while of uasound hid.  ..... . On the bodyof Thomas Wald), aged 14, a plumber's blower, of 7 Milton-a. Mr. G. W. Alien (Oppenheim and Malkin) represented the United Alkali Co. The deceased was employed at Mathieson'a Works, and on Tuesday afternoon ;ibout half-past three he %vas in charge of the bellows at the top of No. 4 Vitriol chamber. The bellows were connected by a tube to a machine for the purpose of blowing air down to the plumbers below. For some unexplained reason and in the face of direct orders to the contrary, the lad appears to have left his bellows, and climbed to the top of the draught tunnel for the purposd of getting to the other side. Ile carried Ile bellows with him and was in the act of lowering them down when he overbalanced himself and fell to the roof of die salt cake shed, a distance of 26 feet. He received such serious injuries that death resulted in an hour. A verdict of accidental death was returned. On the body of an infant named Mary Ellen Beech, daughter of Ralph and Mary beech. of 38, Market-3r., who died from suffocation on Sunday. It appeared that the Beech family only occupied the kitchen aid one room of the house, and 0/10 bed held the father, mother, infant, a girl aged ten years, and a boy aged eight years. On Saturdi,y night . father and mother were both drunk, and the former quarrelled with his wife's brother. At tw,i o'clock on on Sunday morning I..spector Pattinsen and P.C. Measen,ger went into the place because of the great uproar ' and found the two men stripped and fighting. At half' past two the mother put the child to bed, and at three OA and her husband retired to rest. At 'nine o'clock • when they awoke, the chill was lying there dead.—Dr. O'Keeffe said the baby had been suffocated. _The jury returned a verdict that the child had been accidentally suffocated, but asked the earner to censure the parents.— the Coroner commented strongly upon the parents and three children sleeping in the same bed,and said if the parents spent a little more of their, money on their children and A little less on liquor they might be able:o provide sufficient accommodation. It Was not enrprising that as both parents were drunk the ciilh was dead. He expressed regret that the law did not allow him to purlieu them in st me form. •