Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-06-03 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DUKINFIELD.  THE INQUEST.  On Saturday afternoon Mr. F. W. Johnson old no inquest nt the Queen's Arc DAsinlielil concerning Me death of Thomas Williams, minor who committed suicide in the river Tame on Wedbeed.aly morning. . .  Elle'n Dayies"atud: I am a widow, aid mei& I, iewett'a Court; off Kiog street, Hokin 22 The deceased, fin k'. abe ouss am, was my hl 4 He lived at Id. Hiil-str,ei, anti was cc . Let. t 641 was 37 years of age 1 last B:iw him alive oft Tuesday night. Cu Saturday night kilt he came to my house mud said he had had a few words with his brother. Since that tim fhe baa slept at toy hoots up to his death Ile went to bed at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night. Ile slept in the same room as myself with my little boy. 1 awoke at half past four o'clock neat morning, and found that lie had left the bedroom. I thought be had gone in seach of work, because he talked of doing no. The oast news I beard of him was at half-past one o'clock in the afternoon of the same dty, when I woe toll that his coat and bat had beets found by the river side. Some men then searched for the body with grape nel trona, and about lialt•past five o'clock blab sly was found in the river and taken to his br.itber's house, 15, Hill-street. The deceased was is very low spirits since become to me last Saturday. I asked hint why he wee so, nod he said he could cot tell. Ile Wes driaking a little lain week; ho con ant in, oxicated every day. 1 dou't think he 1 bail taken anything since Sxturday. I don't 1 kuow, no far as I am aware of, th it he had any Icause to be in low spirits. William Walker aid& I live at 67, Currier•lare Ashton, nut +au a huh ,urer. Lio Wednesday morning lit twenty Initiates to air o'clsck I t 1 • goi n g to Oct work, sod when passiug by the river side near the Wettr iu Tame Valley road, a young women, named Haunch Hall, who Wtht walksog with toe, pointed to a man's iicket lying on the embankment. I looked and saw ii jacket and cap. 1 got over the rails and pulled the jacket out. I looked in the pockets and found two haudkerchiefs, a pair of black cuffs, a comb, and a piece of paper (produced) on which was the n ‘iLe and address "Thomas Williams, 15, Hil.. street, llukitilield" 1 took them with me to the ti*ndle shop where I worked, ass on the read I told several people where they would be deny clothes had been lost. In the coarse of the fora. noon I inquired amongst my fellow.workmen if they knew Thomas Williams, and one named Redfern said he knew him. At Moues woe Redfern's daug'ater came with her father's dioner sad he told her to tell deceased sister-in-law to come down for his jacket. She CdOle and [gave her the coat. Tuere were no foottnerks or awls of any struggle at the spot where I found the coat.  Samuel Smith said: I live at 6, Peelmtreet, Dukintield, aud am a collier. I was intimately acquainted with the,dseeased, and we have worked together for twelve months. I was with him in William LEIV/18'6, Royal Marine beerhonse, Thursday atter/10°1114st. Re was C t guts sober lie eaid he lint a good mind to make away with himself. I said," What is the use of talking like that, you do not Wean it?" He said, Yea, I do." tasked him his reatiou, mid he said he did not know. Re did not say auythint [nom. I did not think he would du anything of the kind. . _  --Sergeant Rowe said: On Wednesday afteruooo. last, I received information of the deceased's hat having ben found on the embaultment by the riverside. went to the river and sent to do Ashton Town Hall for the grapnel irons body was takeu out of the river about am o'cic It was without coat and cap I was pre when the body was stlipped, and new no tr of injuries. I marched his trouaers acid wa, .stcom i pockets but there WAS nothing n them This was all the evidence, and the ? re— turned an open verdict of "Foood drow  A gentleman passing through one C_ alone was affronted by some clerks, and wv.r.de! vised to complain to the principal *high he did thus—. I have been Moulted bort, hy some of the rascals in this place, and have (Pone to acquaint you of it, as i understand you crs the ptteejpekst VreB brought up at Mao. BRUTALLY ASSAULTI7 0 A WIFE AT GOIMA26 g .rnagietratas ai°liB3.:el.'ice'CbOPukrte.t7nerfil'atitti9i94,4, yC:b.6llWfoer Ichergeff with violently RN tulting wife, Elise es—soJecteoth,u,7eßaoonubt hitlardb.ibe;rPeo.mn alitnhedenediderefrro;:ahnerdsiter .at'tbrioeYne. Wledhneescdary a doctor's certific to then '.,e,Mg put in to the tif. feet that she wati too ha ..tm appear. Mrs. Robinson, who had to be ati-etqad into court, and Reveller evidence from a innt .11,..ar the witness hoz, stated that on Tiaradny afternoon her husbandl came borne and Mcksd begeeveral times TwAt, doctors had been attending her since.—Wituese, was unable to contitue her evidence, and thaw magistrates decided to adjourn the case for a. week. —Tbo. *julep had to be almost genital from the court room.—Mr. Law, who appeareb on behalf c( the priaoner, asked if the magittrates would admit him to bail, but they preemptorilyrefuses], the chairman remarking that he wale surprnied at suz,ii on application be ng made ors behalf of the fellOß who coat so brutally this, his wife.  .1