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The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-12-23 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

CAZETT-E;- SPECIAL  No. II  "Ho w it:t to• ,boo ."r ry twit, uppith. me 7 Whitt. hen& are ther,? Re. they vhol out mato  eyeg! Will all rn,t ecru! gi-agli tills 1,1«, a  Clean from ;y ht' To thi; effect how many a gOllll 01t' .111 ts rawsl ii perhaps kiss powerful terms, in the first horrible agent- of neilioation. Some ilronsifiti deed, for which he has soiamed and planned. at aia wenn]• pibbeil fact. The enemy lie feared. hated sad envied. is no more; the booty he ;Leveled lie:: open to the tttnti of his tioedetained hand. Th..a tine reaction whnh the basest and most inhuman of mankind must feel when he stands in the prosiness of the man he has nmoleresl. majetstie in ins ssankin stillrews, atid rose tle dark ;stream 1,030 loan the fatal woutal. Waking OC sloping, the unhappy a retch toss at that moment that his whole after-life will he hauntsal by the image of ttnus ghastly deed. Ho sew the ilowly•glaxings eye* in dark cornetw the dying groan oelsits in ha eaat as It. flow from the ju,tiois that dogs his foisetepsi a chaise joke, an ascidental allusion Lori tend him into a cold sweat, until he in fain for ory wearies,.aa to seek tillage in the armi of the law end expiate his Crillits by death. Large again is the number of murderers, sonatina. and traitors alio have found the burden of cults, none stir so weighty that, like Judas Iseariot, they bare ended their wrtechtx/ lives by suicide. In n. :MY tWat,.. nvever, the natural assassin Well. to be born with a curious mental imapacity which renders him impervious to the culls of non. reenact. or even that dread of the supernatural which characterises the lowest type of min-raid. Bosh couture. were Pahner. the Rugeley poisoner, whose vigaie :lIIIIIIIOIIP "VOL, AVOS unadorned by one atir,Ol of pity or W3COVAIV from his coinsts of murder. Jonathan Wild, tiss notorious thief taker, who perjured away more innocent liver than he took evildoers. ..A met his death in the pillory at the hands of a justly infuriated mob. or the irfamens for oft iv' assiastination Charlotte Ceolay earned herself deathless, laurels. Herat was an awful example of a man dernly imbued with the love of blooilidasi, and plated in a 'unique pasiten of authority to gratify it to the utmost. ..'lltittier wild out," myr the adage. anal the preuibility of discovery seethe aver prment with the guilty One, however cunningly he may have die: poised of the ghastly evidence. Charles Dickens , sslaserem in one of 1113 norm, how the murderer will, with insgite trouble. shut nineteen doors by which detection and conviction may enter. anti leave the twentieth wide open, said through this twentieth door retribution will duly and inevitably enter. An extraordinary tyre of abardonml wickedness was the notorious Blackheath burglar and auassin. Charles Peace, who appear.' to have no small amount of " prefemional" pride, while to all outward appearances he led a Lfe of respectability, gathering a large income Its the proceeds of his infamous dealings. On ene mmsion, the miscreant actually remaiumi in ;remit to see one William iHabron. an illlooOret
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-12-30 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

APRIL  3—Accrington Town Council deehled to blot out hauling liews from papers in the reading room taalenging to the Corporation. District Council election,. Two old members of the Oswald. twietle Connell were lamtim, the Conserv/ISr" gained seats at Church awl Biala., and them wan no cmitivt at Clayton. Mr. John Riley Wag elected prioddent of tin Accrington stall Church Co.tm. for the 30th time. s—MOstli of Mrs. f! ~re Thornton. 7—The Accrington magiAtratm warned publicans against domino playing in public.housts. B—Annoutnmnerit that the RI.V. .1. T. Lawreneo. curate IC S..Jan,o', kad Son appointed vicar of Road.  10-I)eath of Mm. Rowland, of Lytham. 11—D•ath of Mr. T. WiLon, an old Clayton Conservative. aged 54. 16—Dedication of pulpit and reading desk at Cheat Chun t, Accrington, to memory of the late Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Ashwtdth. 17—Pmsentati.rn to Father Crombleholme. having Ravened hie conneetion with St. Mary's, Clayton, to take up an appointment in Manchester. 19—Marriage of Mime CiiNiC Chadwick and Mr. ! Wm. Blundell. Suicide of an army pemioner nants,d Thomas Parkineon, of Beech-street, who strangled himc !f.  21Accringtori Baptist Centevary orlebration at  2T—Cenon Johnson presided for the 20th time at All Saint,: vestry meeting, Clayton. Alarming railway accident at Ancrington station. Wagon, ran down the Bar:olden bank and weresmashed. A signalman had the pretenc, of mind to turn the runaway true les into a loop line, or the consequences would have I,,en clivastrous. , 29—An old woman named Da!lawny, of Unionstreet, drowned herAf in Plantation Mill lodge. Re-union of old seholant at St. Mary Magdalen's in celebration of the coming of age. 30—Sensational suicide of a woman at Rishton, rho jumping into the canal and taking her little boy with her. The boy was rescued. Death of Mr. 'W,n. Carter, of Blackburn-road, who was found  • -"" " -"
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-12-30 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SPORT.  Two silver sheeting trophies m memory of the Into Lieut. 0. B. Hargreaves were, in March, pre. sensed to the I Company, Volunteers (Hadingden) by Colonel T. Mitchell, CR., VI)., on behalf of Haslingden gehtlemen. The shield for Ancients cost £4O, and that for recruits £2O. In May Judge Coventry gave his decision in a rase. who had occupied two previous sittings of the County Court, brought by John Usher, of Haslingden, cricket pro., against the laneashire Cricket League for preventing him playing as a substitute pro. for Rialtos) club and being signed by Haslinden club. He alleged that the League had acted maliciously, asked that they should to to:drained from this, and claimed £5O damages. A verdict for the de, fendants was given. In August a sensation 'MIA caused throughout Lancashire by the suicide of Usher (aged 46) by drowning in a mill lodge near his home at Haslingden. At the inquest financial difficulties were mggested as the cause. Hashing. dm Football Club took part in an agitation far the forming of a new football league. The agitation was dropped when the Lancashire Combinetic)) agreed to add four clubs to midi of its two divisions. Ilcelingden was one of the four clubs taken, in the eeermel division. In August, Dr. Gill. 'the president of the club, entertained the team to tea in honour of their winning the Reissendale Charity Con the previous season. The Inelmshore Liberal Club billiard train won the championship of the Rossendale Liberal Clubs billiard tournament. In June the Ilmilingden Cricket Club engaged as pro. ler next seaeon Sam Fletcher. of Slaithwaite. The club ended the season at the bottom of the Lancashire ,League table, hut the bringing to the light during the season of unsus. petted young players of prombe gives more hope for the future than the club has enjoyed for some years.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-04-01 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

ACCRINGTON LADY'S SUICIDE.  Cause Not Ascertained.  A sad east of suicide war reyorted to the NorthEast Lancashire Coroner an Wednesday morning. Aft, dragging the Broad Oak Lodge for several hear,. &wing which time a raft war brought into requisition. two constables recovered the body of Miss Isabella Jack:sin, aged 40, of 127, Manehmter. road. Accrington. from ten feet of water. Miss Jaekrnia was the daughter of Mr. James Jackson. After Iner father had retired to bed on Tuesday night. he noticed a light downstairs at ten o'clock. He called out "Bt-Ha" several tintes, but got no mower. It war then faunal that the back door war unfastened. and the woman was missing. Inonirier IVCre mole at the louses of relatives, aol ; ultimately the night watchman at Broad Oak Prints-arks was onked to look on the ledge embankment. At two n',-lock in the morning I,e found her hat.  The inquest was kohl at the Accrington Town Hall. ona Thursday afternoon. Mr. Benjamin Bradley was foreman of the jury. Jas. Jackson, father of the deceased, said his daughter lived with him and acted as housekeeper. She appeared to be in good hwalth, and never earn' planted of anything; and on far as he knew she had as, trouble of any kind. On Tuesday night he went to lx-d at 8-30. leaving deettated in the kitehen downs:taus. He awoke at 10 o'clock. and seeing a light dowasttairs, called out. He received no answer, and then found his daughter was rniesing.. P.S. Renton proved the recovery of the body of dssea-wl from Broad Oak Lodge. The Coroner signified that this wan all the evidence he pros-wised to lay before the jury: but from what the father bad said they could not seem to know why the woman had drowned .herself. The question for the jury to consider was whether she was responsible for her actions at the time she threw herself into the water.  The Coomer afterward: miler] into the bog George Pickup. a sketch maker for calico printing at Broad Oak. who said he had been courting the deeemed. . .  The Coroner: Hatl you 'hail any quarrel Or falling out° . .  Witll,l9: Not in the slightest. Have you mined any difference in her during the last week or two"—Not the slightest. I left her about 9-20 on Sunday night as ootal, and had an appointment to meet her last night, but did not itf, her alive again. The Coroner: Then you cannot account far this  all?—NO. The jury cciurned a verdict of nuicide, but raid thore wit, not -lA, icily evidence to .bonir her ttate of mind at tiie time.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-02-18 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

JAMES C. INGLIS, General Manager.  Catarrh commences frequently by running at the nose; sets up inflammation of the mucus membrane of the nose and throat, followed by a stopped up feeling in the nose and dropping of nnicus to the throat. It partially stops up the air vesicles of the lungs. inflames the bronchial surface, sets up catarrhal bronchitis or catarrhal asthma, aecompdlied by a dry or loose cough. difficulty in breathing, with unpleasant hawking and expectorating. The mucus thus se, reted works its way down the alimentary canal to the stomach, catarrh of the stomach and intestines following. It then becomes a persistent constitutional disease, both dangerous and disagreeable. leaving the patient very suseep- • tible to veld, and every additional cold aggravates At Burr. an inquest was held on the body of the symptoms until it affects the hearing and Alfred O'Hara 157). wlm was found on Sunday I gradually the sense of smell and taste. VENO'S night hanging from the clothes-rail in the Painters' ; LIGHTNING COUGH CURE is the most effi- • Anna heerbouse. of which his wife is licensee. The tient remedy for this disagree. able complaint. It Coroner (Mr. Butcher). replying to a remark by acts directly upon the mucus surfacte, relieves the the foreman, said that a man was not necessarily irritation, clears the bronchial tubes and air vesicles of unsound mind who destroyed himself. and he and relieves the stopped sap feeling 1,1 the nose. It did not know that it was any particular charity to is infinitely superior to any local treatment. It sq 4: so. The jury eventually returned a verdict of ; acts constitutionally. clears catarrh thoroughly out Suicide while of unsound mind." of the system; you feel better the first day; you comfortably at night. Ask for VP:SOS LIGHT! begin to breathe freely through the nose and rest
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-04-29 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT OSWALDTWISTLE.  A Noonday Bath.  At the Church Petty Sesdon., on Thursday. before Messrs. H. W. Kearns, AV. tiamk•mati. and J. Kntwietle. Abraham Brituliffe. of 16, Alatsonsitreet, Oewahltwistle. eve, charged with attempting to commit suicide on the 25th inst., by throwing himself into a indl beige. _ . .  Robert Taylor, a young man. of 75. Roegreaveread, amaldtwistle, stated that about noon on Tuesday last. he WEIS elim to the Rhoden Mill lodge, when he saw the prisoner going in the direction of the dam. Prisoner got on to the embankment. put one foot in the water, and then rolled in. Wittman ran round, pulled if his coat and waistcoat, , and jumped in. He brought prisoner to the side. and finling that he was in a very exhausted state, he applied artificial respiration with success. A emistable subsequently came arid removed prisoner. The water was ahout 5 feet deep. P.C. Greenwood gave evidence to the effect that at half-pact twelve on the day in questicm, front what ho heard ho went to the Rlmlen MR and there saw the prisoner in the warehouse. He wan then conscious. but still in an exhamted condition. Witness removed his wet clothing and c lapped • prisoner in a blanket. afterward, taking him home. Dr. Townley was sent for and ordered him to laul. On being charged with the offence, prisoner replied "Yes." brother-itolaw of prisoner, in answer to the Magistrates. Clerk, informed the court that prisoner formerly lived with him, hut recently had been staying with another p•nson who had eontemplated leaving the district. This had upset Briteliffe. There was nothing the matter with hitt, mentally, hut he suffered from physical infirmity. He wan a lab.uror at the pottery. Witness was trilling to look after hint if the bench would release him. . •  After consultation with his colleagues, the Chair. was said the order would be that the prironer he kept in custody to lie examined by a doctor, and if the latter gave a certificate that he war fit to be at large. then be could go home to hi., relative. If not, he must appear that day week. Addrewing the witness Taylor, the Cliairman raid the tench were pleased with ho conduct. anti they thought he deserved a word of praise for the mail., in which he bad rescued the prisoner . . .  The Nlagistrates' .Clerk added that his CXI,O/491, would be paid for corning there that day.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-01-21 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SOLDIER'S SUICIDE.  Mr. H. J. Robinson, on Monday afternoon, beld an inquest with reference to the death of John. Hy. Greetrwood, aged 21, of 23, Stonefold. Ticlitngd"n. In Auguct of 1902, deteadcil left the Army after serving in South African From that time Inc has been unable to get regular work an a labourer. On Thursday of last wenk he went to Accrington to see if he could get work there, but failed. On returning home, he had ,ORIC dinner, and then went disclaim, where four hours after. ' wards his younger brother found his body hanging. A verdict of suicide whibt of unsound naiad was returned.  At Haslingden, on Tuesday, before the Mayor !Councillor Barlow) and Mr. I'. B. Hamilton, John Curri,.. aged 59, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. P.C. Gough stated that the previous aftentoon primmer was drunk and disorderly in Nlanclmstemroad When witness took him into custody prisoner !ay down is the road and would not get up. Witness had to get the assistance of a mau named Jaques, of High-street, and a lorry.. man. Prisoner was then taken to the police station on the lorry. He had a bottle of whisky in his packet.—Taking prisoner's age into considera. lion, the bench fined him only 2,6 d. and costs.  A young eras, giving the name of Joe Gee, a tramp, was charged, at 'Haslingden, on Monday, with stealing sin carpet bags from the shop door of Abraham Altham. Ltd.—Supt. Pincoek said that on Saturday night prisoner was seen coming out of the shop. The manager missed the carpet bags at seven o'clock, when something tan said to him. He gave information. P.C. Maud6ley found the prisoner at the Craven Heifer, where be was trying to sell the bags.—Albert Winter. massager for Abraham Altham, Ltd., said he sass the hags produced hanging outside tho shop at about sin o'clock on Saturday eventing. At seven o'clock, when something was said to him, he missed the bags—Fri-once was remanded for enquiries lee a week.  The second annual charity tea got up by Mrs. Everett, of Townsendsctrect, took place in the Motion Rail, Townsend-street, Harlinden, on Saturday. and was attended by a good number of poor people. A beef and hunt tea was rrorided, and 400 persons ,at down. Rev. J. Fox (Trinity Baptist) presided at the commencement Iti the entertainment. and afterwards Mr. Thoc. Warburton,  of Helmshore. The programme W. carried wit by Mission scholars and other friend,. Sons were given by tie.. Lord, Mr. Lord; action songs try Missions ,oholars, trained by Mrs. Singleton; and • recitations by norrie Heys, 31h,s Lizzie Haviea, RIO Mrs. Chivcos. Wallace Inmetan awl Maeter Bavestor gave piano solos, Master and Mi. Renshaw gave a duct, Miss Chew, Miss Edmondson, and Mr. Hodoon a trio, and a party from Crawsbawbooth, quartettas. Mission scholars also gave The white garland." Mrs. N. Nottall moved, and Mo. Robiwon seconded, thanlm to Mrs. Everett f*,,i• sic money for the tea, and to Mo. -u, teal sir the scholars, both reterri, to the self-sacrificing vork ibis , , ,•:.• • :, who suitably responded.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-05-06 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SIIO.A a game 'on, she is r "Then prove yourself a game 'ult, too, and get to work again." " Here—do you want to fight me again to3llor. "No! Of eourse not r "Then setle are yer no blcsomin' anxious to get me back, eht"  Raleigh he•iitated a moment before answering. Ito did not quite why Ito woo goixtous to ?PC the man he hod thra lied put right with hit cornratba and hiinteß again. "Oh," he :old I oitiy, 'loco, that we understand orr another. I ,iistrino I'd like to ha pabi with you, and I don't want you to malci a niet, of your life, and your mother* just because I wits lucky eliongit to knock you out in a bit of a sump. lint'. all!"  Bill sighed and Nina Ma eye, anti cogitated a long while in surly silence. Then he fixed Raleigh with his eingle bloodshot orb again, and eaid  "You ain't mad, and you ain't drunk. I 'up. pow you newt malty h. a toff. fryou moan port wants to shako Innitla and forget we ever had a row together? Tryon mean to say, if I com,3 hack to-morrow, you won't keep or, clitieking it mo---that you licked mi.! D'yeti moms tiler, met:piing to ho no talk of it in the foundry at all —etraijiitr  "Of -cute, I .h—why should there be? So long as yen don't go bullying any of the fellows or worrying the girl-. Why, then, we're pals, and anyone who takes adventne of our difference of ytuteelay will have to .tettle with me."  Bill hold oat his hand. "Shako! rotl Mllrt IV mad or Initak. or I'm lii know for cortain to-roorrolv.'•  " Right or. laughed Raleigh. " Good-night,  “Good-night. If you rees the old lady outdde, you can rend her in. Only shout, 'eau, bar hoarapparatus is bust up”  (To bo continued.)  At Clitheroe, Edward Wm. Scott, 31, • timeregained soldier, who had served eleven years in India. who attempted to commit suicide on April Ist by cutting his throat with a penknife. waa brought before the magbtrates charged with the offence. On his brother giving an undertaking to look after prisoner he was discharged. Supt. Brassington, at Barflies' County Wien Court. referred to the presence of gambling gangs in the neighbourhood of Burnley. He said when,. hers of these gangs had cared very little air at being brought to court, as their mates clubbed up to pay the fines. These gang: were a constant source of trouble. Ilerbert Hartley and Elitha Smith, who were captured by the police from amongst a gang of 12 or 13, were each fined 10,, including costs, or seven days.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1905-01-14 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SOH.' puni :intent might have a deterrent effect on those individuals who coati. rtuch trouble and annoyance.  Beer and Instruction. Tie piisinhilities of the publi,houne are ex. rending. and with the beenning of the New Year roc landlord has added to its sphere of influence. This b in the way of Sumlay evening lecture,. " Egyrt. Ancient end Modern." "The Indian Mutiny" have already been dealt with. and ti.' lecture:, we are informed. have always attracted a fall house. So entrons.ed are the customers m tinlectures that the bare are always empty, on that the kieture room is alway, full of people imbibing knowledge with beer. The landlord may lib, a good buiguesi stroke but whetlier or not. if people will drink. the idea of blending their pot, tious with in traction 1, 00 capable of some development. - _  Febe de Se. Are we going to have a revival of that serilSt fete de se': If the Manchester Coroner has lis woy, liii IC I. doubt about it. He declares that the yewbeta of "suicide while if unsound mind.- now so general, laa become a mere formality. and that they are 410 i all in accordance with the vs dense. He therefore desire, all juries to relitct that verdiet of felo dare where there 1M1.2 • nothing to indicate that the victim of self-slaughter is, toilet under mental aberratiou llf course.  .... . there no fear that there will be a return to the Canal ,qoel of Aich a verdict—the burying at four coot :catla and the driving of a stake into the leafy. It would be too muck tool& nowadays to emnluct ,ich an inconvenient funeral. wilily every four cr.. rood., judging from the alarninig in.! cote, of wOuld snasic to overcrwwded cemeteries. In the case of Whitaker Wtigh.t. at whirr inque,t a verdict of felts de teflttned, that rccute finaocier was accorded (Chritian burial. when all Vlcirch honotirt. were done to the remain, Sc. that the werdiet of felo de , still be a: much a forMaiity a. the one of 'suicide %lino of unsound mind:'