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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1918-04-06 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

TRAGIC DEATH. I I. J. C. B. Wel Ohethire Coroner,' held an-inquiry-at Hooton Ilan on Saturday afternoon' touching 'the death of Frederick Benham, aged 45- years, second ' air meehanie„ whose body was found dead in a bathrocen the previons day. Mr. A.I 1141.110 r. A.M.,aPated that- lin knew the man. He spoke to witness and said he had pains in his head- Deceased was not communicative. Witpess. saw deceased daily, but he }rat PeYee before ecumiained. had. applied for •kave but did not get it. Sergt. L. J. Mitchell stated that he ' raw deceased on Friday morning, when he made some remark ,abon it being ,cold.—l The Coroner: Did you notice anything .n,n-1 usual about - the deceased-Witness; He seemed a bit strange about the eyes..and did not think .anything about it-till I afterwards heard what he had done. James ,Shlsw stated that about 11 o'clolas be went to Mean the bath. He found deceased lean• ing over the aide of the bath. Witness went 'to' the medical officer, and when deceased Was, was lifted from the bath he saw what had happened ,to him --Sere. Coo Perl. 'police officer, stationed at Little Sutton; wive evidenee- of being called ito.the Hall. Witness saw the body lying in the bathroom. There were 4 raw and inirror-lying by DecesAed in civili-an,life was n eeachbender. He had served one year in the .Snd South .4.frican Regt., and was din. charged medically nulitAn 1917: He was in receiptrrof a tomporary pension of so. 3d per week granted April 1341917. His char.' acter was atar.ked good.--Capt. A W. Weston. RtA.M.C., said, that when annunoned to the bathroom deceasedlß head and aboutdere were in the bath. W:tness found, a deep cut in-the- throat esteoding across to the right ear.Teeessed-had his overalls on.—The Cormier in summtnir Up said it fnr the-jury to &Er:• whether they I bought' the wcittinf ant eelt-in9l;ttcql The, had heard the evideate lei to deceased's complaint ahoy* pain in h". 4 head mid it would- be -far thew to saw. whether -theythinithe wits-reeponsible jury v•-• tarped a 'verdict +bat. deedeetted oommitted. suicide while teibporarilyrinsanw. • . •
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1918-10-19 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

POTATO • PILFERING.—A small boy i iat blue. I named; Norwell :Davies, of Laird-street,was I ` The death of Mr. Justice Neville recalls brought before the magistrate* on a charge' an election that was histpric,' and was of stealing albs. of potatoes, which were watched frbm all parts -of the country. growing,m.,- the Birkenhead .Park and were It took place in the Exchange division of the property of the Corporation. The Liverpool, Mr. Neville beating Mr. C,oschen potatoes were valued atAct. The defendant 1 by,, the narrow margin of seven votes. Pleaded guilty. but said that he had been I Lord Randolph Churchill was at the time tolel•-tV. t he could take potatoes from the 1 at the height of his popularity an 4 power, Iperk. :ft. „lir,' seen tiomeobo. resting uthem : with vigorous ambitions. He had reached ' a,ania(l3-Vintst -Hi m.reorning. rligiielen a Gordonv Oniony-11a.= : the position of Chancellor of the F_xchequer . the boys of the neighbourhood alit they and it is assumed quarrelled with Lord could :Sake the potatoes. Seme• had been Salisbury's cabinet, which declined fo , taken...l—and the boys had been allowed accept his reforming rliudget. Straight-I. to bake be, smaller, nue, which 'were left way he went off to the Times office and lin the .d.. Nothing was known against gave them authority to announce ids: the detenitoltt.. who vies a regular attenresignation. By this means he hoped to ! dsurt st.sChool. The'Bench decided to disbring the Cabinet over to his view, as he ? miss-the ease. • . believed there was no possible successor : .NO lIIIATCHES.-"James Henry James, of to himself in the Conservative ranks. The: Mountarrove, was fined .6e., oil 3 days for. 1 result was, however, different to his anticibeing in charge. of 'a cart in North-road pation, and by the act he committed political 'on ttle-st4l4°'• P-1- ••• PC't*Tt3 said that 'be suicide. He fell from popularity and power '"7 the Aefeedent 14 6.30 in- North-road' without the reuired -lights The defendant never to rise again. As he confessed later, __id be ~,ii no .meicucs holt he produced pe had in his survey "-forgot C.oschen," ....Rome later from the lining of his lat. whom the Tory Cabinet had invited to take There ty, ''e .0 r- ...er • :w-, en the cart. up the post. This was the commencement
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1918-12-07 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

DODDS. • Copy of Letter. liklerley Park, Chelford, Cheshire, 17th Nov., 191 h.  Dear Sir.—l regret that I cannot attend the meeting on Monday next, but* I am 'strongly of minion that the Liberal Party should not commit suicide by giving un('nditional support to a party the majority of whom will be Tory. While it may be that as a /vault of a hurried election while war conditions and the coercive force of 1).0.N.A. are still operative, the voice of Liberal opinion may be inadequately heard, yet I Iliod strorgly that it 'should not allow ,itself to be silenced. The new problems and nest solutions which will be before us demand not obedient registration of the , decrees of the Government, but independent examination, and if necessary, free criticism which apparentiv Mr. Lloyd George from his latest utterances thinks undesirable. Iliherals should demand an absolute assurance that conscription shall cease. that soldier': enlisted for the duration of the war shall be allowed to return at once, and not be retained till the final conclusion cif peace. That the interference with free sneerh, free publication. free associa.ticn shall be discontinued immediately. That trade and industry be relieved from Government regulation and interference as soon as pcesible, and the action of the Government as a gigantic trader shall rea.a That all imprisonment of conseientimiN objectors and those who have not been guilty of crimes shall he pat an end to. That free trade which has enabled us to " get through the difficulties of the war better than any of our Allies shall be maintained. That. the immediate extension of Governments Departments with t lie r thousands of employees shall he reduced as rapidly as possible. and that the most-rigid economy should be practised in order to face the very serious financial dangers that await us with vastly increased national expenditure, and as yet no scheme for raising a corresponding revenue. and that immediate steps should be taken to stop tht wasteful conversion of valuable raw matte Tia I s into wort bless ni i litarr munitions. These and other points demand the presence in Par:iament. cf thoughtful and independent representative: and not of disciplined adherents of a ministry whose finansia I administration during the war is no adequate pledge of efficient and courageous actions whit-h must call us all to face not a general paradise of increased comfort, but a hard straggle by increa.ed efficiency to meiet the coming strain.—Yours truly. (Signed)
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-08-02 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WALLAS EY.  Wallasey village was startled on Thursday I morning by the report that Mr. WM. Gage, ,a well - known resident, had committed suicide. Inquiries proved the rumour to be only too true. Mr. Gage, who was engaged in buainess-at the Woodside leirages, Birkenhead, resided in Lessowe-road, Wallasey. He came home on Wedneaclay night, end rested himself on the couch in the drawing-room. In the morning the housekeeper fotnid him etretohed on the hearthrug dead. Beside him was his gun, both barrels of which had been discharged. Indications pant clearly to the feat that the deceased gentleman took his life. The inquest was held yesterday even- - - _  • S •  The handsome silver championship cap presented to the Beaeombe aod Eirrearioact Switiming Club by Mr. Joseph Hcralt., M.P., wee competed for on Wednesday evening. Four competitors entered., end the tide was runiug in full when they entered the water. Ti. diartance• weue-350 yards. Prom the first ithe  (Tl.  cogsalar captain coo the club obtained a wed isad, an& iodinating splenthdly, won ossily. The Illoand oompatitor • was Kr. A. LO. Lawry, wiz*. fortnight ago oared a insing hay born drowning at Dereanont. The Olderabaw Cop waa won by Mr. R. Harrison.  Coronation Day at Wallasey will not be observed on a very large scale. In the morning the ohairman of the Council will attend unwise at the Parish Church, and he. invited the inhabitants and representatives, of different societies and orgeariestions to wennpesky hem. Th. let Cheshire and Cantarvonshire Vohinteer Artillery will head the procession, and it is interesting to notice that the Rev. J. H. Gwyther, 8.A., minister of Relre-lane Congregational Church and president of the Wallasey Pres Church Council, will went in the service. Afterwards the proohonation of his Majesty'. Coronation win be read in the ohuraliyaid.  The visit of the Indian troops to New Brighton created an interest almost unprecedented in the locality. The visit was ahl, ranged at short reties, but notwithstanding this the crowd .winch met the dusky Indian ' wargiore was the largest ever seen on the Horseahee Promenade. And the warmth of the welcome was unmistakable. The stalwart soldiers of the Empire were greatly emend at what they saw at the Tower, end it is said that on the following day they expressed a desire to return to New Brighton in preference to the Manchester vt  Another nay hoe been discovered in the Ling Bill. There is no provision for rienawieg ebe,danaing sod music licenses be twain August and February. The Tower authorities applied at Wallow on Weidner day foe a reuenral'af their Boum and also far an additicadi lioserie for Sunday evening 0:00010, but tiler were imasoolistal. A
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-08-02 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED SUIOIDE THZ HATCHET FOR HIS WIFE AND !YE-LOTION FOR HIMSELF.  j At thp Borough Police Court yesterday, j before Aldeamisat Thomas Cook and Mr. J. M. Kelly. Jamee Etttohinson,of 99C, Queen'a hiliklimga,waa charged with having attempted ' to commit rthoide by wallowing • quantity of eye-lotion on the Slot tilt., and bather with threateming his wife with • hatchet. P.C. au (Zetd) grated that about hall-past three on Thursday afternoon be was informed that a man had taken potion in C Bleck, Queenee-huiltlinge. Witness went there and found the prisoner in • room on thl ground door. Ile wee UllOO/180i0110, tad two or the.. WOIDINI were supporting him. Witness ewe dim an emetic and sent for the horse ambulance. Be could not &bset I what the prisoner had taken, but he was J banded a bottle containing. eye-lotion. When Crwas taken to the hospital he said ader tad a alight disagreement with his wife, and that la had hew drinkimg. j Elisabeth Hutchinson, the wife of the pi. j Goner, stated that the prouer had threatened to kill her with a hatchet the previous Monday everting. and that the had to rem l out of the how* for bar life. Since then I ehe had not been living with the prisoner. The bottle of eye-lotion had been obtained to lubricate a Keck eye which her husband had given her in Coronation week. The bottle, which only contained a small queentity of the lotion when produced to court. ' was heM frill when she left the house. Sergeant Johnson sag the prisoner told him in the lxridewell that he had been drink. lag far the last tow mouths. He bed no recolleotion of hwing taken the poison. On the charge of atempting suicide the prisoner wee discharged with a caution. On the charge of having easanited hie wife be was bound over to keep the pews for twelve months in the en= of .95.  0011FORATION EIMCITIIO Tame %
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-05-31 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

MOTORING IN WIRRAL MORE CAPTURES AT RAMAN.  At the County Police Court ea Thursday, before Messrs. C. J. Busheld, W. S. J. Hey lish and Oaks:re! Stitt, V.D., John Gowen, od loskdane at, Rock Ferry, .46 charged on information with haven on the l7tk May driven a motor ear fuiioarlyon the Chester, road at Mastham. Mr. J. Paxtoei &deeded. P.C. Dutton stated that on the 17th May, sit lye minutes past four, he wee on cbsty at Beath= when he sew • motor oar drivel by Mt. Gowen and occupied by his wife and bee driei epproaching. A part of the reed 31/th was measured and was found to be no yards, wee covered in Mine amends, winch Well at the rats at 25 mike an hour. This was oonrohorsbed by itlergt. Bowyer. The defense was that the constables had made a mistake, no doubt a bona-fide sue take, the whole case depending upon the accuracy witlh which the oonetsble used his stkipliewaboh. defendant was called, and stated that he had oome from Rook Ferry at the rate of about ben miles an LOUT, and on reaching the top of the incense Shot off the power which reduced the speed to about seven midges an hour. Re oerbsinly was not going anything like 2.5 miles se hour, and had peteotcontrol of the machine. Re had on altogether, and had his deed upon as. although it was not necessary to apply it, as he was sot going at • great speed. It would have been suicide/I to go at anything like des *peed given by the etables. Re was travelling shout an fiat as the Livened tramcars. _  —The Zsgistretee' Clerk Mr. %HT/. Tos don't mann as feet es the eld New Ferry home tare? (Langhtsw.) Defendant: No, faster dun t'hat. The Chairmaa said *me had evidently bee", OHIO eliOillke, and as there was • doubt Cie, they zooid give defendant the benefit of it and dismay the caee. William Madame, engineer, of 31, Afosatstreet, Liverpool, Was charged on inform& ton with a Walker offence at the same place on the same day. Evidence to the effect that defendant was going at the speed of 28 miles an hour was giVesi iry P.C. Dutton and &rift. Bowy who added that on turning the corner taw oar skidded, the wheels leaving a track is the dust hell a yard wide. Defendant dcnied having travelled e the speed federated. The ear was a new one, and did not work as well as it might hate done.  A fins of ie. end coats was imposed.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-08-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SAD X 29).  $11041731. TO A LOVEE.II QUAIMML.  A distressing story We. related before the West Cheshire comer (Mr. J. C. Date) and ,C jury, at an inquest held at the West Kirby as*, ea Wider Median The hetet" was idle the eiremoitetme at the death of Sabe Natehineon (12), • domestio aeramit balm" Pig to Weetterirtmireve. West EirbY, wkt, sernmitted suicide by taking Pei.= left Thunidey. heat the eddeses it eppeared t elk 'Mandel the dOceeeed, wbo bed been Wiping ciompene with a mum man named Tem Wen, Wanhaved two Pennyworth. ef =alio arid ia powder form at the shop of Mr. Waiter Smith (chemist). id Wad WAYlereenme to We she had had an interview with Larkin. Leta in the efternoen site 'Pap eaft W.Pagiresad where a pesenme. Wein les, noticed her drinking TOM jOr• hatimmenit ammination of the jar revealed* Ike hit that it had asistainael oxalic acid. gwooe proceeded to Larkin's farm fleheol-laun_end sent in ope of the work., men to ask Toes Larkin to come out Ai week to her. However, the young men did, Mt mem set, but Jetsam Larkin, lie &edam I appeared instead On going into the fers* rad ha found the girl Eying on the ground. a. rendered her all the assistance in his , and die confessed to him that dm =taken ponion. A messenger was at ewe dispatched to Dr. Uta en din d in the mean. elide emetic* were edesinietered, but withOut 0000106. Dr. Leggat arrived Slimily afterwartle,t4theet time the young woman wee help end died almost immediately. she was being attended to hir. James Let Win and by the bystanders, • letter aiMzseed to Tom Larkin, fell from t!Gide of ter When Thie wee picked up hfr, Demise, a beiteiver *lime shop is close to seed subeemently headed over to the polies The Comm read that letter 40 the Mrs. It was eLe, 05t5epietionel nebire, end an. eased Thomas Lerma of having breapht her heetio mom her. The heiress, it said, wesikl her lather, and she weld net live be fees it. She wasful4. swam of what she was deieg and meet not be looked upon as lessee. As he (Thomas Larkin) was the mum of her aillffSoo, she hoped they wield he her in hie_ grave. Theism Les me called before the jury. Meier pressure he admitted having bad andee istimeey with the demesso girl, but protested that he had always been perfectly MUM, be marry her. His espieuatlon of the sad affair, was that the girl had been In a tad temper hemmed he had not acoomI MOW bee to the Carnival bell on the Wadi. weeday evening. i7dMt of "Bdde,dtKing twriporary ' was returned, and the Coroner ra t7uroe4 Thomas Lai with the noit severity.. The Ittaar..h. said, appeared to be the genuine outpouring or e worosee despair. and it the itatemmte it contained were true Lieki•'• combed bed been heartless, and im mist be held es famelly responsible for the girl's death.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-04-19 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SUNNDE AT NSW FERRY  BY CARBOLIC ACID POLSONLNO.  On Thursday evening Mr. J. C. Bate, coroner for West Cheshire, bold an inquest at New Ferry into the oirou.metances attending the death of John Edward Towndrow, aged 53 years, • clerk, of 13, Winst&aleffroad, New Ferry. On Tuesday afternoon, between three an- four o'clock, he waist into the shop of Messrs. D. B. Hutton and Sons 'chemists of New Ferry, and purchased & aliPenny bottle of carbolio acid, containing about eight ounces. He then eeemed quite rational, and spoke to Mr. Dutton, who was in the whop, about & planter which he had received eame weeks before. He said he wanted the acid for disinfesting purposes. On arriving home he asked his wife to get bra ready, but erect upstairs without waiting for it, saying he would go to bed. Shortly afterwards however, his son heard him call ' 'Carbolic acid," and running upstairs, found kis father lying on the bed in great pain 'Dr. Leigh was called in, and Inepeotor Wai eon, of the New Ferry Folios, aleo wont to ;the house. They found Tovradrow lying on. ' the bed. His lips were burned, and ther• were stains of cerbolio all round his month I and the side of his fails He was lapsing I into unconsciousness, in which Mats he re mained until he died shortly after 11 o'clock_ Dr. Leigh tried to use the stomach plump, but be found it too dangerous, as the man was almost suffocated, and artificial respire!tee had to be resorted to in order to bring him round. Shortly before half-past ten Dr. Drown arrived, and the etomach pump was again applied, but without success, and the patient died, as stated, a few mines., after eleven o'clock, Deceased had taken • large date of the acid, having nearly emptied th• bottle. At the inquest Frederick Harrop Towndrew, son of the deceased, gave evidence of iidentiloation and made a statement to the above offect,—The fury retinue:l a wrdict of " Suicide daring temporary inssdity."  &rm. Manatees% AND DUTILS and other Idvertbemento awn bo forwarded to the ILon4on and otber! papers through the office of this paper,
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-05-14 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A NEW  BRIGHTON GIRL  THE RESULT OF A DOMESTIC TLFF.  Before Messrs. F. Johnston and J. Joyce, at the Wallasey Police Court on lifoy, a girl named Annie Frances Steel ()tt 9, Linden-grove, New Brighton, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide by pimping into the marine lake at West Kirby the previous night. It appears that the girl and her mother have an arrangement regarding the hours each should have at liberty on Sunday. The mother was to go out in the afternoon and the girl in the evening. On Sunday last . the woineed wanted to alter the arrangement and have the afternoon out, btit as this was not acceded to there wee a slight altercation. In the evening the girl went to West Kirby and jumped into the marine lake from the Promenade. There were several young men about at the time-0-30--and one of these, Mr. Thomas, of West Kirby, I with a Birkenhead gentleman and another, succeeded in getting her out. She was un- I 001111Ci01223 when reecued, and wee carried I into the hydro near. Here Dr. Mote sue- I °elided in restoring her to ooneoiousneea and, though she swooned again, she was speedily ' brought round. Sergeant Pieroy (Horlake) was telephoned for, and conveyed her to the Hoylake Police Station. , Sergeant Pieroey stated that at ten o'clock , on Sunday night he was celled to the Weed I Kirby Hydro Hotel, where he saw the prisoner and Dr. Mow, the latter of whom informed him that the girl had pad into the Marine Lake. Witness asked her it this was correct, and she replied in, the affirmative. After the priaiier had bean attended to by the staff of the hotel he Obtained • and took her to the police station. The father of the prisoner said she had re°tinily been in a very nervoue state, having apparmi—ly overgrown her strength. She ' had also made some undesirable acqnaln I emcee at Weed Kirby. The previews day, in 'order that his wife might go out, it IMO arranged that his daughter should remain in the house, and that she should be allowed out in the evening. She objected to this proposai, and there was a slight altercation. She went out after tea, apparently then in her usual spirits. Be appealed to the Beneh to. dismiss the prisoner, stating that he had , made arrangements to send her sway for the slimmer, so that she might be kept away I from her bad companions. The prisoner admitted that theplanation given by her father was CO, . and promised to behave better in the future. The Bench having addressed the girl as to her future, dismissed the ease.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-09-13 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF A SIRKENHLID  BAI•K CUIRK.  On Thursday afternoon the Liverpool De pat, CAW -Coroner (Mr. b.:. Gibson/ incest*: bed the oirotemstsuieee attending the deaths John Arthur Davies Off years of elgs ab° WIU3 employed as a bank clerk in Sam head, and who lived in Thirlmere • red Liverpool. It appeared from the evidence given by the father that the dectead hat been of intemperate habits for • Peeled °' two or three years. About five week., eff he aaw that his son was in a very noreolf condition, appauently suffering from the La ' fects of drink. Witness told him to P" his intemperate habit% and the latter della started that he had been reprimanded by bank officlaLe owing to his inteentarsaaj. last Buoidey &owed visited WItIN. house, and then said something to the dee: that he had last he situation at the Oak' Witness neat heard that the dreessed_wo in the Workhouse hospital with hie tlizol' 'cut W itnee3 had gone to the bast. OW be bound that his so had not beer dee' miawd, and ascertained' that ererYthlai quite in order so foe as his work ah• aooonnts were concerned. Margaret May Gurley, charge name male surgical ward of the Workhouse tot; tal, 'aid the deceased was admitted to the stitntion on Monday afternoon sofferint wounds to tie throat. Whilet under telt merit the deceased appeared to be national, and nothing whatever wog ."7. ved in his conduct salcolated to cresteu; alarm. On Wednesday mornint "' heard a crash of glass and people scresattli and on going into the ward she fauaa awe seed had jum pad through the 1r Ladoair wan afterwards found lying in the co k about forty feet below the window, and book place shortly afterwaßs. suicide gawriastfound t tempotharariDaii viesin.onceorntelead  "Nothing Like It."—Chnes "Liao** ill coughs and Oelds. —BO Arggle-st. lbik Oasce74 ' celbs  A treat in eta.; Now now roady.