Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-05-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

GRE,LNISH.. i100...,...rge0n.  EXCITING SCN 130 A ND OF ' At the weekly meeting • Guarilinne, on Tuesday • R. Key, relieving_ olKoe  • e E R AT  for &Li' increase iit salat  Sen sat ion , known the local  Kay, the father of ti guardian. The Chan.. . .  moved that the salary of Mr. it. nay or morcaseo from £lOO to 30 ayear. Mr. Roucroft eeconded the motion. Mr. Langtree moved, as an amendment, that the application he not acceded to. He said the relieviug officer had oely been in their Bex vice sixteen months, and though be was recognised as s good servant, it was quite premature to grant his request He received already, with emoluments, £155 4e. 3d. a year, and was bet ter paid propowionately than other officers who had been 20 porn in their employ. ilia father, Mr. Kay, had told him (Mr. Langtree) that they must keep the gusrdiaus in good humour, and there a talk of paying for drink, and so forth.-Mr. J. Kay (exoitedly); It's a lie; I sever said any suoh thing; don't mention my name again (uproar).Mr. Langtree It is true, or I shoult at have mentioned it. It is tto one of the newspapers says "Somebody has begun recreating certain of the guardians wits cheap whisky, tobacco, se., at Boma neighbouring BacManal Temple, and so up goes the salary at once." Mr. Laugtree added that it would boa great injustice lotus ratepayere to vote the increase. To show the weaknese of the case, the Chairman, a country guardian, had himaelf put forward the mullion, a quite uuuenni thing for a chairman to do. lie thought, too, it would have bee!, more seemly if the applicant's father had taken no part in the discussion.(.` Bear, hear," and uproar, in which several guardians rose to speak at once.) Mr. Langtree, proceedine, said he was one who had not been invited to take a glass of cheap whisky-(laughter) nor was he to be bamboozled in that manner.(Applause.)-Mr. Edeleton seconded the amendment-Mr Hale supported the original motion on the ground that Mr. Kay was doing more work than the town relietiog officers.-Mr. Osbaltleaton °Attended that he had less work to do n W thaw When he fil.t entered on his office.- Mr. Bomber said he should propose that they do not Mei ease the salary, and that if Mr. Kay was not satisfied, the Board ask him to reign-The Chairman having intimated that he should put no such propoeition to the meeting, Mr. Bee said he saw they had got together a strong whip of country guardians for the purpose; but he hoped for the honour of that Board they would not sell their principles for a paltry glass of beer:-This remark gave rise to a renewal of personalities and diameter, which called from Mr. Windle the observation that their Board of Guardians was more like a "bear garden." The amendment was put, and 13 voted for it; 17 voted for the motion, which was declared carried amid considerable excitement.  - lank, had committed tumid, by hanging himself. He was a g iirleman of a quiet and retiring disposition, and I was much respected in the town. An inquest on the body was hold at the Chorley Police Station by Mr. Cliberoton, when Mi.ei Lucy A. Woolfenden daughter of the &ceased gentleman, stated that he retired to bed on Friday, apparently in his usual health and good spirits, after making arraugements to fetch his wife borne from Yorkshire on Saturday. As be did not appear at breakfast next morning, she went to call him, and, getting no reply ,opened the bedroom door. On entering she saw her father undressed banging by the neck by a leather strap fastaued to the bedpost She went for Dr. Harris and Mr. Superintendent Bentham, old the body was out dean—Dr. Harris said the deceased had been dead several hours. lie knew the deceased well, and considered him one of the last men to have committed suicide.— Mr. 11. Baker, inspector of the branches of the Manchesta and salford Bank, said the deceased had been a faithful servant of the bank for many years, and there was nothing. so far as he rio. ascertained, in connection with the bank to account for the act.—The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind.  THE DAILY TELEG RA P fI" ON