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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-02-10 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WOMAIII ATTE DDDDD UMW.  At & quarter to ten on Tuesday night P.C. 194 (Hughes) while going along Canning-street found a woman named Sarah Danko sitting on a doorstep with a five weeks' old baby in her arms. The woman was drunk, and when the officer told her to go home she said that if she moved from there it would be to throw her baby in the dock. Seeing that she was in an excitable condition be thought it &dateable to take her to the bridewell. She remained in the cell for the night, and at ten minutes to eight en Wednesday morning she VMS permitted to go and wash heroelf by the assistant warder, Mrs. Hunt. Thinking she would be all right, Mrs. Haut left the woman for about two minutes, but, hearing a noise, she returned and found Banks Wag on the floor. She had the roller towel tied round her neck, and the gas was escaping from a bracket that had been wrenched from the wall. Banks had evidently attempted be hang herself by bonging the towel over the bracket. The woman was slightly "blue in the face," but was partly oonsoisets. Aosirtanee wee assured, but it took several minutes before she e round. Banks appeared before Mr. Meadows Prost and Alderman Benedict Jones at the Polies Court on Wedneeda7 on charges of having been drunk whilst in charge of • baby, and also With having attempted to commit (suicide by hanging herself in the main bridewell. Dr. Preece said he Was called in, and on exesdining Bunke found the neck was swollen, but not marked. She was evidently very nervous, and said she had nothing to live for, and had no home. She was really suffering from the elects of drink rather than from nervous depres  Aiter the other witnesses had been called eke *as remanded to the werkhease for • 'reek.  Mamas. Panne Aim Pons, Land Arm* 1. itortimer-etreet, Wien Hall, Birkenhead, lave welkonditimied houses, variously situated in Birkenhead and Tranesere, now ready for immediate occupation at very moderato rota. a
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-06-13 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WANTED TO RUT.  and I said I had not time, I had to go en. Than he odd he wee cold. And he seemed in a nerveus condition?— Yea, nearly clistra-ught. I banded him my fur, but it did not reiveh him, and it fell to ,the greaml. Then he shot me. You had not teen the revolver before?— No. And had no idea he had one P—l had no idea obatcver. . .  And immeàiately afterwards did you notice what he did ?—I saw him turn the revolver on himself.  I did not. And he gave you no wararng before this happened P—No. Moo you think, Mies Ilay, seeing he wasea distracted, that he was hardly aooonartable for what he did?-1 think eo. I think you ran away, or cams thie way? —Yed, I Tall away towards the 1101111Tefft _  Dui Emmett ever tell you he carried a revolver. Miss Hay P—Never ; I was utterly unoonseious that he carried one. _  W!it time Tix-iii;-!..,itTn:3ii.;;Ji-;-is it when you saw bun in I.Lverpeol F--Aliout two o'clock. Yoe did not know whether he had been home in the meentiniet—No, I did not know. _  But he was alread4 at the _gate in Rose Mount about seven o olook !—Yea. _ _ _ . . _ _ .  "i-tiiini,;;;l.4-;;-ii-xn:pre,7- Manly, and be had been informed that the  ENSAIIRMENT WAS BROKEII OFR e..  ern-eationed by Hr. Sally (who appeared on behalf of the deceased man's relatives), witness said that he knew before he came back from abroad that the emgegeenest wac 'broken off. She had no reason to believe he knew she was eng.gged to another gentleman uutil he arrived in Wand. . .  Did be say anything to tii;efietit that he looked upon you ae his bride in the eight of Clod P—Ym. some incoherent remarks of that nature.  --stirteiiioned by Mr. Roby (who appeared on her behalf), witness said that ehe occasionally called at the house in Rose Mount because it was not very faz from the EU, teen. She had no special reason other than Mils for walking to the noose that afternoon. Her fiance approved of her speaking to Rmmott and settling his mind. The photograph which was found in the road was that of her present fiance, and not of the &clewed man, as had been stated. This osmolnded the en-dance.  onoper----,-iireUniniT;4l.up, said that Miss Ray's evidence placed it beyond doubt that the deceased bad committed suicide by &hooting himself. The only tilleaLian that reineined for the jun, wah--whel was the state of his mind what Miaa Rai had ittat told them deceased esemed to have been conked and uude incoherent remarks. ma condition was a most erdorepy one_, and he was apparently distracted. The jury after a short consultation returned a verdict of "Soivide whilst of unsound mind."  Fiastwaxerre Acww idevadm more ing a mach Are occurred at 116. • An"' street, in the foont roan on r Utta it ap oarsthat a ablid who a ennelette gaTmat on was playing with a box of Dalwhen her gown caught alight and the otee barn+ on the lower part of the The lianas spread about the _fitting he brigade errived mid the ire before meth &MP Wila
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-06-13 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

PLATER'S INJURED FOOT OORIPENSATION AGREEMENT 11 THE INETREMUNG ACT OF AN THE COUNTY COURT. OXTON GENTLEMAN. VERDICT OF SUICIDE.  Radiogr.aph itanstrations-.eppenzed..ae e.  deuce m to theaconditicin of an injured foot in an application heard at the Birkenhead County court yesterday, before his Honour Judge Bowen Rowlands. The application was made by Messrs. Camillell, Laird. and Ltd., to terminate an agreement made by consent (under the Workmen's Compensation Act) in favour of William McKay_ laboarer, of 53, Oliver-street for payment of 10s. per week in respect of an accident sustained by McKay while ie the CornPanles employment. Mr. P. Si. Stone (Messrs. Stone, Pletcher, and Co., LiverP 001) appeared for the applicants; Mr. lEbanbury Alas, barrister (instructed by Messrs. Moore and Son. Birkenhead) appeared for the respondent. Mr. Stone stated that McKay was a plater's helper at the applicants' pa.rd, and on nnary 11th last a plate which he was aseating to place In position slipped, and fell upon hie left foot, injuring it. His hand was also injured, but that was admitted now to be healed. The man's average earnings were 209. per week, and by an -agreement entered into the Company undertook to pay him 108. per week, which was paid from Janicary 26th to the date of the present application (May 10th). On April 11th McKay was examined by Dr. Larkin, whose opinion was that at that time he was in a fit condition to resume his ordinary work. The Company thereupon stopped their payments. The only question ftgleil BODOUT me whether the man was able to resume his work at the time the Company discontinued the payments. Dr. F, C. Larkin, senior surgeon at the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, slated that on Ma examination he found there was a little tickling in the centre off the back part of the foot—very slight indeed—but the movements of the foot were perfect, and be (witness) was of opinion that the man waaable to resume work. He might have a little pain at first from using the foot. but that would certainly pass off very soon. The radiograph showed that some bones had been fractured, but there had been no displacement, and the banes had healed in their natural position. If the man had be. gun to make an effort from April 11th, he believed he would have been able to work without pain at all by May
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-02-14 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

DRINK AFTER DRINK.  NASZTUAL DRUNKARD SENT AWAY.  Au. VlDiancomate woman who has spent four and • bald months of the past twelve in gaol, wait yeatsrday cummitted to an iaelartates' home by Mr. T. L Dodd and Aildennen G. 8. Okkaan, sitting at the Bracrugh Police ()mat. &ash Hanka by IMMO, et no anted eddrese. was charged on remand with having been drunk Oisoraingertreett with having been drunk Ln olaaage of her °WU aged eight wades; with having attempted to commit suicide by hanging herself in the mein bridewelti, with having been a lunatic not under =L control; sad, lastly, with being an i drunkard. .7').A. (Hughes) said that at a quarter past ten on TueedieY evening, the etll leteebeirYi be found prisauer sitting on a I doorstep in ()earning-street She had a I &aid, aged 8 weaker, with her, and was very drunk. Witness advised her to go home, I and she laid: "If I Ivave here it will only Ibe to throw my baby in the dock." Witnese locked her tip. , lanather constable corroborated. Seat. Jobe Johnson, in charge of the main bridewedl, stated that he had known prisoner since 1816 as a frequent prisoner at the court. Dining ten loam she had been oanwietted 12 thins, thirteen time; for drinduenarees. Sharing the lad twelve months poisoner bed served four and a half in gaol, chiefly for drunkenness. When (trunk she was a danger to herself and otters, and had frequently attempted sundae.  —lbs. • Wad, a female toriidewell official, .esid that she allowed premier oat of her aell to malt bowed and left her for a few minutes. On her return witaeau =aced a smell of gas, stud prisoner was. lying on the flow an her fem. She had the towed tied is a loop mead her meek, and n examination vAitneis *mid the pre jet the towel, towel, as if wheeler lied tried to haze herself, and the bracket had come away Aram the wall. Tillie gae wee or-aping. D. H. H. Preens said Ike was called to prisoner and tomb her mock swolkm as If she had attempted to ,hamg herself. Palomar me emit to an inebriates' home for three years, ithe Mailman erprmaing the hallo that lilhe WOW :atmn changed tar tbabettar, ,
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-04-21 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE PASSING WEEK.  Rowland Ellis Brans, the signalman who was concerned in the sensation on the railway at Llangollen, last week, when it was ,said he frustrated an attempt to wreck a train, on Monday shot himself, and be died almost immediately. At the inquest evidenoe as to the state of the onan's mind was given, and a verdict of "Suicide witihrt temporarily insane" was returned. • • • •  Notice is given in the "London Gazette" that the Secretary of State for the some Department propoees, at the expiration of 40 days, to make an order under Section 36 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, repealing the existing orders under that section which permit the employment of women and young persons from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in certain oases, but &Hawing the continuance of such ersployniernt for one year only and subject to condition* in bookbinding factories in London, drapers' workrooms in Manchester and Salford, and factories and workshops for the manufacture of straw bats and bonnets.  The preparations for the next Church emigres, to take p:aos at Barrow-hi-Furness, are v ell advanced, and it bide fair to be amongst the meet successful of the long series of congresses. It possesses an energetic and business-like chief in the person of the Bishop of Carlisle fDr. Diggle). and the subjects committee under hie pridance baa made considerable progress in peepertog an interesting list of subjects, amonget which are 'The Relation of the Church to the State," "Literary Oritioism of the Bible," and "Education." A design for the Congress banner, prepared by lire. &wacky, wife of Canon Rawsedey, which has been approved, shawls a Isere of St. &estigem occupying the centre of the banimand the arms of the See of Carlisle and the town of Barrow at the top. • • • •  MT. George Ernest Look, Inattattes diesel:or of the publishing bones of Weird, Look, sad Co., Limited, hi s died at Hadley Wood of pneumonia, at the esrly age of forty-four. Deceased was the eider son of the founder of the publishing business of Weird, Lock, and Co. Under his management that business prospered considerably, oeverel ventures, +no:acting the "Windsor Magazine" achieving great popnlar success.  When Mr. Andrew Carnegie was a boy he was a messenger in a telegraph office at Aknona, Pennsylvania. Hie "boas" was a Mr. Jacob H. Laroombe. who was ‘ery kind. Mr. Carnegie always remembered the coneklerate treatment he received, but Mr. Lasoombe dropped out of eight. Quite reoestly Mx. Carnegie learned that Mr. liarcombo wao a (deck in the Pension Bureau in Washington, very nearly incapacitated. and in financial straits. lir. Carnegie be Thaw arranged to pay his cad "teas" a pen. soon of Isls incmghly, and provide for the kind man in other ways. • • • •  The Marquis of Anglesey on Satotday attained his majority, end the event will be celebrated later on with great reJoiolhas QU ,eite Welsh esteem, 4,6 getegent it witlL be
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-09-29 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

CAUGHT RED- HANDED. _,,,.ii Hughes, of Acres-lane, Garton. P.C. Genie at 1 a.m. on geotember tie ti field near Rarnston. Noticing ts! was carrying something. the con!-oi behind a bush, and when ling!ie' near seized him. There were twoY,_ v men with Hughes, but they tan officer examined what Hughes haill cep and found it was a bag tvolei°o.36 nets and stakes and four rabbits. ,d 0 who was summoned for poaching.,;et. had been out to attend to sale 00.01 lines." and met the other men. owes the other men dropPed the was fined .el and costs.  r ---4 lzid. 4 1.1  103 r. 'eacliz tlat hav,,lo e_too,l  a aulci Lou, Ilj kding t, Nillt bowl, t 4 :I,°' 73 04Would 8)11,041 l'‘lttitt Jou. hi he Oelev -14gre. 414tlity Of !Ilk no% ei Dt 454ght +myth' thaelt id of 3 Y t less  Ope it" the neoure art pLrove. boL the 04 ng Brent. s to -044 ',Englkit 111.ezlikee  that i 0 'rai about a word f. naa tube: suicides. Iting he 's.PaPers, au a delight iry be Nitae had 10 telt with. but hw xeir bßul,  haawal tetu; es-.  ---...,-them on iieture o ng that : otl nuos me.: he other preted he noble how Ihs L arc° edough t to writings U yin both ju2 dead et itiee aad 7 Ire r 3 eat. rould • sever. St. Whe. e books r friends , Weary, ition: or delity oe  the even.. r-rk aCh• today ;al metal in.  the pre. yor and !ker. ths E. Wood. Jr. J. P. Mr,. IL Mor;:.nd, Irs.  17 jag forince ;id l':Pit  :s to the Lir Izon,1! ad. taow.! of 7,tr. kouittli he Mr. W.  e rava nt puch a• erol unt err LIII Asow rem ins  le al bee:i ha  elms; for rots. The  i vat I point. to smoke OPen.  young ,rt every ink the, irg !•t a juwors, moke—ot (lauchrry. we hope see  her ‘11:"I re  everyone,  owing r lii d nt of ,ented narloblf 5re,.1.0)1 ovi r  raid ht Tr loulj c3nir ingie !:`r r the wine. 1)10.'  me wag Stanlir. • to' ("°.  (chaip tr. J. K.  otort't of A": 1 totawtto it a eBesot. that tha hielt no° lice. al hita „Got V. to sac AS of 4°'  Let: peell a ;able orihor Tba KsY• „,.J, drool P'- e lighe'' - aid he , !-nighti _cranuegite°, •••••••  Sf*"•°' inistar,s4
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-06-30 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  WOMAN TRIES TO JUMP INTO A DOOK.  I At the Borough Police Court on Wednesday, before K . George Atkin and Ames Moos, a Yotifig woman named Jessie Athsrton. of 41. Back St. Anne-street, was ensued with being drunk and disorderly, and alms with attempting to commit suicide by jumning into the Egerton Dock. A dock gateman named Cooke stated that I'. saw the prisoner the previous evening I walk on to the bridge at the Egerton Dock. and after throwing off her shawl attempt to get ever the chains. As she evidently intended to throw herself into the dock witness caught hold of her and afterwards took her to his hut and gave her some tea. She told him that she was going to „e anise friends at Seasombe, and he allowed her to depart. As she was going over the bridge she made another attempt to get over the guard chains. This time she was prevented by an hydraulic man named Henry Woods, to whom she ransacked "I En better out of it." Superintendent ParIrm- said the prisoner and her husband were rswectable people, but the husband's work during the past twelve months had only been of a very casual nature, and they tad got into debt. The woman, who said she was very sorry, and admitted having t3ken some drink, was bound over to be of rood behaviour for six months. The Bench Awarded the two men Watson and Cook sq. each in recognition of their meritorious I onduct.  Bum:KmAn AND WIRRAL Roerrrsh.—Medioel report for week ending June 26th, 1906. In-patients—Admitted 10, discharged 4, died 1, in hospital 35. averswe 31. Out-patients—New cases 156, advices 513. Tim kers line.B. IC.Asrmsti,.—The name Si Mr. D. S. Davies, the Chief Constable of Birkenhead. was accidentally omitted from the list of general mourners who were present at the funeral of Mrs. H. K. Aspinall In St. Mary's chagehyard en Tuesday,
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-04-07 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THAT WOULD RE CONCLUSIVE. in their mnde as to the circumstances under which the deceased got an to the railway. They were bound to come to the eoncl that he carried out the threat wh4ola was mentioned in the letter, in other wards. that he committed suicide by throwing himself in heat of a pawing train. Them they bad to consider the state of the deceased's uelnd. On that point from the evidence of vitamins; that they had had there, and the lest persona to we him, so far as they could judge he WWI is hie right mind. The fact that he wrote the letter, which was not a letter that a person unaccountable for what he was doing amid ',mite or would wine% el:eke as to hie mind. He did not see how they weld say he was of nneosad mind, and in fa,* of that letter they (yield net help Mingb, weed sound mind.  I vision  A juryman: His mind had been upeet We all know who live in the dietriot. The Coroner: The quesbion that you have to decide is not whether he was in low spirit', or whether he was in trouble, you have got todeeide whether he was in such a condidom that be was unaccountable for what he did. It is a point which Cananier's turies don't quite understand. Your duty in to any whether or not he was responsible for hi actions. If he was a lunatic and did not know what he wan doing, then you could say he was of unsound mind But if a man knows what he is doing and commits extends it doe* not matter what his trouble in. however great hi: trouble may be, it is not right to say that he was unaccountable for what he did. Ili a good many eases you have to deal with you find that there is no evidence to show a man's state of mind at the ergot time. But when a man some hours before he takes his life writes an teß"gible letter you cannot very well say that he wee of unsound mind when he carried out the threat which he mentions in the &otter—which is an intelligent letter. The inn atter a briof oessuitation, tanned a verdiot of "%ha de ea"
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-09-01 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

FAL VIVIAN AND CO-OPERATION  Mr. Henry Vivian. M.P., was fresent at a great open-air meeting at the Crystal Palace on Saturday. when the Co-operative Festival was brought to a suaceieful close. The borough member, loudly called upon for a speech, said that every event of the festital had passed off successfully. In . the exhibition the quality and standa^d of the articles evidenced the fact that the , co-operative workshop; were not in any 1 Ivey b9nind workqhops outside the moveI meat, and the whole exhibition was a satisfactory iodisation of the progress which they had roads in production. The festive, was established to emphasise the i.alue of association in widening in various directions the lives of the great mesa of the people. The progress which had been made in the develepinc•nt of the senior and Junior choirs had been entirely satisfacWry, And ''lth f direction of music generally the work p the association had become so extensive that sectional festivals had been established up and down the country. The work of the Festival Association Mai not now to he measured by what was done at the Palace, but by the forces 'which they had set up and the local associations which they had started all over the country. On the motion of Councillor Mann, tile following resolutMo was adopted:—" That this meeting congratulates the National Co-operative Festival Society upon the sus,cess of its efforts to promote the love. of music, flowers, and healthy recreation amongst the working people of the country, believing that the same cannot tail to be productive of great good in the formation of character and in diverting attention from the less ennobling forms of pleasure and sport,"  Witseinsnar's "Maws" contained the following :—Leacling Artielp on "Ifneruptorment and the Child"; Attempted Suicides in the Memel; Plower Shows at Port Sunlight, Ellesmere Fort, god Meswall; Funeral of Ex-.M.-Itergt. Oates at Behington; Miletings of the Wirral Mospital Board and Mirketilapatiprdispg; Inquest re hfersey Eon, tin F ity; Women Suffregists in LleniPng ol; trial Railwag Co.'s Meeting; Messrs. Thompson and Light on the Mar market; the WiAe.i CifialaieliP etc.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1900-07-11 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE AT WEST KIRBY.  eqader. morning hire. widow, who wee a hospital mime by V.= - &ion, committed emende by banging emenniss the homme at Mr. T. P. Dell, 7, North-roptl, West Kirby, where she was a visitor. The deceased, who woe ell years of ' ..41. was well known in Wept Kirby, aad woe of her mei:beefy death was received with regret by a wide easels of asquaintwces. Mr. .T. C. Bate, the Coroner fee Weld Clioshi-,.held an inquest at the Dee Hotel, WeAl evemeg.—Mr. Thomas P, ,Bell, of 7, No-road, West Kirby, stated that the ,te,sed had been in the habit of visiting at his house for many years, and ou the present oceaaion had beep staying with them about three weeks. She appeared somewhat depreosed at times during her stay, especially on Saturday. Witness, hie wife, and Mrs. libidleton went out together on Sattnilay eveOng. sad deceased told 'witness rat his wife had eaid something about her eying to leave them ,shortly, se -she expected other visitors, and deceased added, Whatever happens, I'm sure yoq nil see I'm not deaerted. I'm fighting against it." Witness thought she was referring to her fits of depression. The Coroner: Do you only think else referred to depression ?—Yee. Continuing, witness said deceased occasionally said something which led him to think she hared affection of thebraie, but she said nothing about it en Saturday evening. Mrs. Midden wee not in any monetary difficulty, lend he knew of no reaseu for her act, Hie first intimation of the oeicurrence was hearing his wife wrapping after she had gone downstairs on ennday morainal. shout eight o'clock. Witness hurried down to the hack kitchen. whore be saw deceased hanging by her apron to a email hook in the ceiling. She was quite dead. He and his eon cut her down, and they sent for a doctor.—Mn. Bell was too much upset to be present at the inquery. The jury, at the Coroner's direction, returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind, end pawed a vote of aympathy with Mr. and lam Bell.