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The Haslingden Gazette. — 1902-06-14 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

SUICIDI AT AITPLEY—Job. St 1,... lwitadalt odrret. niuott.4l Wtoirt:stlay afternoon fy ballad,' him .e:t with a op • to a lock Ili Ihe ilt4 i.! the bat It kitt•hen of los li,ii.t. Itoneasett had not t.onti wt.:kit:a for about a fortnight. awl fad notoplanartl of toeing unwell. Purina toe tone It • w • !f hts work tlert,ionl had been drioktag heay.ly. If • rtao Nal o•nt. .lisu out Weduesdoy gunny-flow . „ .  bv his granddaughter, Eliot Stubbine. • weave!. woo lived with hon. He then appeared ti ho all right. When *hp returned limiter work about a quarter to am she found .1. etuod leatignig front tint et ding. 11. was tot illit is by a num named Henry James Dowlin:, of 35, Hamlatrect. Ilr. Womley was at once sent for. Inn he pronouttrad life estinet. inqueia wan held at the A:aley Inn lbursday aftenown be Coroner H. .1. bittan. when a verdict Iif•• Suicide whilst. 01 nu-Knit:ol mind" wan returned.  SILVER wtoomo—Mr. and Me., J. V. (ca-1.11, -' Burnley-road. celebrated their silver tiedding with a fancily party no ebinday lave. Mr. Co. del is • widely.kac an townsman in Ai-count 44 (hi vll'lolll, public- poeitions alueli Ice has occupied ,Jr 44011 cultimo-a to fill. For nearly twenty-five years, he hat, 17(1,1 an agent of the Liierpool Vietoria Leg:4l Felendly Society, secretary 44 the Jo-yr:legton Wilk-. iity-nvary for • sCrnilar period 111116'1 *bo regime of Dr. %lotiaghaii. utoi for twenty yearc laboured induotriously ;u amateur dramatic ir-; formances got up Icy him in support of variolo s; charities. He cc also recretary to the Aev-rinut n Trade, Council. a-here his labours have been Isaidy apt. aiated. Mr. Cowden married a daughter ; : Mr. Edmund Pickup. an old Ac-rington bedia . . _ .  www assoomted 'with t.ld John Bridge. a wol.known sexton of -The—ttwd Church.- Mr. and Mrs. Cowden were the reeiptent: of numerou.present* and congratulation, including a telegram front Dr. Monaghan. London. and good wishe: from Dr. Feuwick, who ke.T. op the Itispermary pramire carried 011 by Ins former partner Air. M Atm/haul. null for which Mr. Cowde:l lota aw collector.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1902-09-13 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

ACORINGTON WOMAN ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE.  A woman, named Mary Jane 'Holden, who lives at 6. Marquis-street. aerated quite • sensation on Ilonday Itight by standing at her house door and proclaiming to the people about that she had taken laudanum f man a bottle which she held in her hands. She was removed to the Accrington Police Station. where she het conacioustuss. Hr. lteddie awl his son were sent for. They used the stomach pump. and after two hours endeavours they succeeded in bringing the woman round. She was brought before a magistrate on Tuesday morning. and clurged with attempting to commit suicide. Chief Constable Beattie asked for a remand for a week to enable the police to inquire if anybeellr would take charge of the woman. He had to objection to letting her go away at once if someone would take charg, of her. The grinner said she seas employed at a pick'r onion chop its Aocrington. and she would hoe her work if site could not go back that day. Tile Chief Constable: Sit, said .he was tired of life.  —Prisoner: I will never do it again. ! P.C. Baron said he was in Matspais.streit bat ' night. when he was told that a woman Lad been attempting to rommite suicide. He saw the priamer stood at the door of No. 6in that stnsist. Attie had a bottle in her hands labelled -Laudanum— Poison." and she said .he had taken the stuff. She ale. said that her friends had turned their backs on her: ib. had nowhere to api that she was tired of "irmg. and wanted to die: ' Prisoner' was remanded until Wednesday to are alms could be done for her. Prisoner was again brought up on Wednesday at the Accrington Police Court. before Major Sharpies in the chair). and Mr. E Welch, to are what could Ile done for her. _  --The Constalgo said no-one would hare anything to do with her. She wan cot properly reecrered front the effect of the poiean, and he would have to ask fiu a remand for a week. Prisoner If ymt hip me a week I will be (kW!! The Chief Constable further stated that when she regained cO.II•CiOIMIeSS she said elle did not want to get better. Ile would not have pressed the cane if somebody would take charge of the prisoner. Prison,: I eould go to Ali, Ann's. and then could go to work. _  rite Chief Conptable vaid primner wanted to go, hilt he did and think it wee safe to Is her go. If th:y kept her a week. she might come to her  Pri,oner guid if they would let her go she would go Alice  A Aonlan seated In the bode of the eller (presumably the Ahee Ann, referred to by prismun) erul she had Do room.  ljor illTarp-iett7lsO you object to a remand? Prtso:tem Vo.: I do. If Ido not go to my work. 1 shall lose it. and I shall be ileatiotte altogother.  Bar. repeated his evidence of the proviotp day. •nd added that when he took her to the poiit, otation Pile said that if the ',ism did not not. she nouhl Ro inso the water.  The magnetratos renta,•l.,l pm,nr for • woek.  TO
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1902-02-15 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

TNT° LIQUID POISON.  TO RESCUE A SUICIDE  A story true in every detail. and as exciting and sensational as any ever written in novel form, has just been told 60 a reprewitative of the London "Sun" by an ex-police officer of the Metropolitan force. His !lame is Alemmter Robert Heffernan, of 53, Arehel Rd., Fulham, who, at the early age of 36, finds himself a police pensioner, and the holder of a certificate for bravery from the Royal Humane Society. Ho is • most extraordinary man, as the following details of his career will show. Said he to an interviewer:— . _ .  "We—the Heffernaus—are quite a soldier's familt-. I married .0 soldier's daughter and each of iny sisters is the is if o of a soldier. I was in the North St a ffs Infantry Regiment better known as the tAth " fur twelve years, and went through the second Zulu campaign, during which, on cue occasion, Citeway's son, with an enormous army of gigantic black warriors, made Us ron. It was a good job  , for we were fwerhetiy outnumbered, and hod we not retreatesk, U,. cc would not have been one of us left alive, flowerer, in the riot 'We corm, out all right ; and in 1891 1 came home from Africa, and joined tee Metropolitan police force. "I was always a good ath,Ge. They made me ,me of the T Division Metropo..ton roller Cricket 'ream the very year I joined. I bowled in every match, usually taking the largest number of wickets, end I made the record number of top scowl. The Didrict Railway Cricket Tram also used to let MO to play for them. At Stamford Bridge Athlete Grounds I wOll • number of prizes as an al/.round athlete in various clubs that hold their meeting there, and won so many events at the ptdice sports that I was eventually handicapped out of existence so as to speak, in order to give others a chance. I was made to give 24 yards in the 100 yardasprint, and 360 in the mile.  "As a swimmer I won many competitions, brining all comers in the City Police awianning events. In (.011.1.11ef of my succeues I was asked to cont. pete against the two crack swimmers of the Police of all England—Drake mid Bryars, of the Manchester Police. I did so, and I beat Bryars. Drake, however, was a little too good for nn. He was a masterpiece; and I believe is still the crack swimmer of the English police. By beating Bryan I gained the position of semnd best." "And how Ilid you come to have to he pensioned off!" querinl the reporter. “Ah," replied the exconstable. -It was all through that affair in the Regent's Canal. It was on the afternoon of February 2filh. 1897. I was on duty, when I ion told that a nun had jumped Ude the Regent's Canal. Rushing to the place I threw off my overcoat, and dived in to
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1901-07-27 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

LIIIII- aith laboarer. who have the full Ul4 of their hands'.---11r. Brown: I suppose not in lor dars. Nlr. Wirlim intimated to the Joylge that the Company were willing to give the plaintiff £75 and iwy cowl.  Hit Himour. to the plaintiff: YOU ought to at, rept that offer. People seem to he under the irtipros•ion that thiii Act is like the Employers' Liability Act. and that they can get entire cornpeteintion. bot it is nothing of the kind. All we eau give you iv te!p and a you take my advice you will event the Company'n offer, which it a very liberd mitt  , .... Ultimately the plaintiff ars,' to oessint £lOO and poy his own inks. and his Honour expressed the 01,1111011 that he had dime quite right in doing is:. Toe Judge also sympathised with the plaintiff in his 1111A1Ort  The I4iliop of London has decided umiti his poliey itt regard to the custom of reservation. Ha will forbid local reservaticrit. There were six ea-es of suicide last week in Lon. don. and during the same period six infants undir one year of age wen. suffont.al in bed. Waste*, may he the CaSO with other fruits this year. there le good promise of a plentiful supply  The total colto• of fish caught in the North-Eastera Sea Fiiiherne Diatriet during. the post three aloofly, wan £851,106. an increase of £22.282 aa compared wit), lost year. " Rohe worn by tl.r. Emperor of China " is the announcement on s gloriotto May and gold garment tliqilayed for aid., in the window of a 1401010 it tailor. . .  Thy widening of thy maili line of the Laneadnrii and Yorivihirr Railway Company between Wain-M.ld and Toilmorden provinw dow and riatly. The Lord ffirli rrlnwart. Lord Hal.l.ury. in pa.. .ng -elit.ute Lnni Ru.nll, worn his hat ovyr his ig.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1901-12-28 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

FEBRUARY.  7--The School BOanl-Wit-tWi-on—commenced ;uriccrington, when a meeting of "friends and supporters" was held, and wa• addressed by Mr. meeting of ladies and gentlemen interested in the Conservative bastor oat held at the Central Club, when it was stated that the effort in October neeessitsted the raising of between £4,000 and £5.000. 9—Bishop Cramer-Roberts, Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Manchester and Vicar of Blackburn, died suddenly. 11—The body of George Tomlinqa.. a married man and a weaver, of Rediton, sins found floating in the lodge, Holt Mill Paperwork.. He had been missing since November 15th, and • Coroner's jury returned a verdict that be committed suicide on that day. 13—At the annual dinner of the Accrington Agricultural Society, Councillor Genhurst invited iii ighbouring agricultural societies to join the Accrington Society. 15—Annual Conservative grand hall at the Central Conservative Club. 16—Mr. George Sutcliffe, for twetity-five yeara superintendent of Messrs. Howard and Bulloogli's Fire Brigade, woe the recipient of • liand.mo present at the hands of the members of the brigade. 19—An inquest was held at Accrington touchingtbe death of John Jackson, aged on; year and tee months. when • jury found the child had Med from tubercle. accelerated by neglect, and they &sired that both parents should be censured. Iliey were accordingly severely reprimanded by the Coroner. 21—George berry, employed by 31essrs. Blythe and Cm. and Patrick Garry, an employe of Messrs. stemese, were charged at Church Police Court with stealing dved and printsql goods, value £7OO. from Steiner's Works. The great detective Caminada, was engaged in the ease, and the prisoner,' were both sent to prison. 22—The Laucaaliire Football Association found Accrington Stanley "guilty" of manipulation of receipts in their Lancashire Cup Tie against Heyworal. The tie, which mac won by Accrington, too awarded to Heywood, and Stanley were ordered Gs pay to due secretary of the Assceiation within twenty-four hours the sum of ES 10s., illegally deducted from the gate receipt, 27—At the Accrington Police Court. John and Hannah Jackson were fined for cruelty to their children. toe of whom, a hoc afrod nile rear" ten months. had died. At the inquest held previotolv the jury required the Coroner to rennin.. the parents, and in doing so he expressed It,; hope that the parents would he prosecuted. —The portrait of the late Mr. Thomas Hacking. uncle of Mr. Joshua Hacking, and a former pre.kident of the Clayton Mechanics' Institute. we, unveiled by Mr. John Wilkinson, the chair. non of the Institute.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1901-12-28 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

LETTER.  The Coroner read a letter which was found in the breast pocket of deceased's coat. It commenced with "Bear father, dear sisters and brothers. I pen these few lines before I die. I can tell you I have been out of work for a fortnight, and I am also no better. It peas-es on my mind. now that my money is getting done, and having no sick pay. so I have decided to commit this rash act." The letter further stated that if had done right, he would not have been in that trouble. Thomas Haskins. of 89, Audley Range, Blackborn, gaol deceased lasi lived with hini for alit at riv weeks. He had hero out lif work for the last fortnight, and had been depressed in consequenee. Fir stopped off hir work poorly, and got stopped because he had not let his employer know. Inerased left the house on Friday night at 8-30, saying he was going to the Port (Ace. Deceased had spoken to him of his having had some trouble. Jessie Clegg, an insurance agent, of 2. Lion-stmet. Church, deposed to discovering the cap and jacket of deceased on the canal towpath about forty yards , on the Church side of the Whin Isle Turn Bridge. F.C. Clements deposed to receiving informattoo of the discovery of the cap and jacket. He atonce proceeded to the spot and received the body front I about three feet of water.  In reply to questions S wan brought, to hglrtthat deceased wan the principal witness at an inquest three years ago. and that he hod now journeyed (Nun Blackburn and committal suicide in the exact spot where the previous victim was drowned. Several jurymen remarked that it was strange that deeeased should come bon) Blackburn and drown hinaelf in exactly the same spot. It had evidently been ou his mind. . . . .  ••••• The Coroner 'rid they could not be certain de cettAect OM the man.  jumnan .uggest.sl that the first witness he re  The Coroner weld it would irate no purpowi at that inquest. A verdiet of 14uieido whilst of uniound was returned.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1901-11-02 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

BAPTISTS AND PROPOSED NEW PASTOR. At the Baptist School On Wednesday evening the annual congregational tea. and meeting were held, when there was • good attendance. The tea was given by members of the congregation, and a sum. of Cf 14s. was realised from it, which will go towards the building extension scheme. The meeting was presided over by Mr. 0. W. Macalpine, J.P., and during the evening anthems were given by the choir, and solos were ably rendered by Miss Slater. The secretary for the extension scheme fund reported that the sum irk hand for the extension amounted to £93 with promises of £Bl, making a total of £174. The money was invested at over 3 per cent. Mr. Mat-alpine, in the course of his remarks, mentioned that he had been asked to confer with them about a new pastor, but the friends at Cannon.street had had very little experience in the appointment of new ministers. He adviaed them not to get a new parlor until they found a man who took hold of the whole congregation. With regard to the extension scheme, when they bad faced the difficulty and done their utmost, then others outside would be willing to help them. Mr. W. Pickup and James Rushton also spoke. Mr. R. Haworth moved a vote of thanks to the Chair. man and the ladies .s-ho had looked after the tea, which was adopted.  IRISH Screasrrtinvs.  On Inishkea, says a writer in Elortoned's Xago,ine, a particular family handed down from father to son a stone called tte N,sogne (probably part of some image), with which the omen used to make the weather to their tking. One lay party of tourists visited liii,hkea, heard of the Ne-ogue, saw it, and we to al,rt it in the papers. The priest in whole parish Inishkes lay either had not known of this survival of paganism or thought that no one eli” knew of it, hilt when the thing was made }ebbe he deci 1,1 to act. So lie visited the island, took the N..-mzue col broke it up into tiny fragmentk, and scattered them to the four winds. The print was sacrosanct, but the islanders vowed vengeance, and an unfortunate man of science, who hat lived some time among them, was pitched upon as certainly the person who had made the story public. This man, after mine time, returned to complete his investigations at Inislikea, and was warned of danger; but he laughed at the Idea, and sai I the people were Iris very good friends, as, in teed, they hal been. However, lie was hardly out of the boat before they dell upon hint and beat him so that he never c,mplctely recovered —indeed, died in consequence of hid Injuries some years later. Probably a like fate avmhl befall anyone who touched the cursing stone on Tory, which was "turned on" the Vasp gunboat after she brought a posse of Wills there to levy county cess ; and, as everyone knows, time Wasp ran on Tory and lost every sour on board. Only the other dsy I heard that a fish buyer stationed there displeased the people; the owner of the stone "tame I it on him," and a month after the buyer's wife committed suicide.
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1901-09-07 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

ACCRINDTDN MAN'S SUICIDE.  Ibi Thursday. William Mitchell. 56. Grange-lane. Accrington. who was well known in the town. was found in the cluck pond at Oak •Hill Park. H.: aro 63 years of age, a malt of independent means. and used to be 1111 overlooker at Broad Oak Works. H. left home on Thursday morving. saying that lie was going to frientl--tlrs. Erawictle. of Christ Claurelnstreet- hut it wtcsa,-ertitined that he did tot go there. At 11-30 in the morning .11r. Robert Hargreat es. of I Ink Hill ('ark. notieed him sitting int a form lwar the duck pond in the park. reading a newspaper. Hargreaves saw hint several timm between that time and 12 30. when he {Wilt to dinner. An no Ullilll,ll win' passing the pond at 1-20 they 110livell comethiag in the toter. of which they inf si Harry Taylor. joiner, of Mountainlane. Taylor at mire ran to Alr. Hargrestec. and Mitt him a hat he had heard. and then went and pulled Mitehell out of the poml. he being quit,slit,!. Ti,,' water in the prowl is only two feet on deep. It is stated tlmt hail suffered from nervous complaint for a ~ii.,, her of yearn. nod in Arimist last year he had a in ven. attack of  irihni.t was held yesterday morniow in the Court Room of Cl,.' Accrington Tow. Hall before the Cormier. \tr. H.. 1. Robinson. Alice Mitchell. widow of tlw deceased. mid her boahand woo formerly a cloth and print overlooker. He wag b 3 yearn of age. He hail not been right for moor yo.r, witferiew from 1111,01181100. and be hail Inn under the doctor. Lately he hail not beim able to Oct ogee the nersoomess as he had dime in the past. he had also been wetting weaker. He left I • about a quarter past eleven on Thursday. He hail beim in the habit of going to the park. and readine the paper there. Robert Hargrgaves. head warilener RI Ink Hill Pork. !WI nisiding at Mak Hill Rom, spoke to menu( the ikiiceased sitting on a form at the side of the pond in the park about twelve o'clock. He 111 W him a short time afterwards and he had re., VVil to the other rule if the 1.111. He was laid down on the form. Witness did not see deceased awing mild a y 11111 l g man NOM' to him about halfpast one nod told him that a num had drowned hing self M the pima. He went with the 1011:1 MO they pulled deVellYeli iAlt at One, but he was hail. He was about four feet from the side of the pond. Me ceased hail left his paper and cap on the hank. Mr. Seed. a juryman: Mereased would have to got .ilyer mow railiugw to wet into the pond.  woold'of he! Witners: ACto. Mr. Seed: How high are those railings° Withetw: About two and ...half feet. A verthet to the effect that -dereatorl drowned hinorlf wink of 1.11150111111 mind- was oqiinted.  11. f-. SIM a Loudon paper, aresearot. Tito Irish Nationalist party are again wudinc round the hat. The Ameriean servatit girl is to he asked to sobwribe. The Paris repot.* now say that Mr. Kruger has recently ,rhown very evident aymptonot of senile decay.  WI MOST NUTRITIOUS MOM&
The Haslingden Gazette. — 1901-09-07 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

COUISITIS. I do not wish 'DM to hear of my death, unless you 110. I can't write any more. Forgive and forget ynar miliappy daughter. Fanny.- IThen followed i live croassr.l Witten maid she mold not account I for her conduct. There had been no have affair; to ' 1 her knowledge. She was always the jollied and ' 1 brightest of girls.—Hettie Johnson. himaekeeper ior ' Dr. Bireto mid she had been at Dr. Hire-ti's sinee Monday. She believed deceaswl had been there between five and six montlis.—The Coroner: What sort of x girl war slie?—Witness: She was a very nice girl and very bright.—The Coroner: WIWI] did you notice anything different)—Witness: After dinner on Wednesday. She cleared the table. In the kitehen I noticed she had been erving. I inked her a-hat was the manse. Ale would not tell me. I asked her again what was the matter, hut she refused to answer me. She "soddenly tamed round and went motairs. I followed her immediately. I thought 'she was in trouble. I found her eloor lockssl. I askisl her to let me in. She didn't •nrwer. Three minutes afterwards "he Caine downstairs in a very bail condition, foaming at the mouth.—By 6, Conoco: She would not have had Irate to write the letter. Witness, fancied she mind have written the letter before dinner. herniae the &MI, gong rung twin-. and she did not answer. Deceased did not go into the surgery between speaking to witness and going upstairs.—Dr. Birth said he hail always fouril the girl very cheerful. !hi Wednesday. about 2-15 p.m., lie met her coming down'tairr. She war foatning at the month. Wit. nen asked her what she had been doing, and she stal rhe had been taki.ig ',onion, which she had got from the surgery. Witness, with medical assistance. did all us-could for the girl. He took her into her room. and then- foiled the letter prominently placed on her box. He saw no ivrite.ag material; handy. He found the tumbler produeed. There was a powder and a little liquid in it. The bottle proiliteirl was in it; proper place in the surgery. It was a bottle lie was not iiv the habit of using. It would be ahotit half full of corrosive rah-1 limate. The contents of the tumbler was the same. It was a deadly poison.—The Jury returned a yen dWt of suicide during temporary insanity.