The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-01-11 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1804.  LOCAL & DISTRICT NEWS. We are to were that Mir A. M. Pritdie denghter of Mr. A. L. Entire,. of &emigre. has passed in the Senior Division of the Trinity College (Landon) Examinatios for pianoforte playing and harmony. Miss Fritehe, who is a pupil at the Ashleigh House &hod Tutbury, was awarded 85 marks out of a maximiim of 100, or Eve above the _number required top..  Strange Suicide of • Lady. -On Friday last week, the City Coroner, held yn inquest un the body of Emma Mary Parsons, widow of Charles Walter Parsons who formerly resided in Station street, Sutton Coldfiekl, and who was owner of "The Sutton Coldfield and Erdiugton News" who resided at 14, Park Grove, Wordsworth-road, Small Heath, and was 39 years of age. Mr. Hibbert represented the relatives of the deceased, and Mr. Emery Davies other interests. -It was that the deceased was in the habit of t as a palliative for pain, and had threaten suicide, and had previ revolver in her possession. On last she WM worried over a  morning she was midday s report of the deemsed ran upitaint wound in her chest in the said she had shot the deceased had . _ _  tni Tuesday ,in bed. About I, and a SOU of di mother with a he heart. She our deposed that  it not for the sake  Barron, who seepAg her shot  —ea to said she  S pxi—tiao-rtem examination, he was —e to • a bullet had passed right through the body.— ..erdict "Suicide whilst temporarily masse" was returned.  The blaster (Mr. Hogg) reported that on Friday laet, Mrs. Wills Claremont, Wylde Green, gave her annual Chris:tmas tree to the children‘ numbering upwards of 300. Afterwards Miss Atkinson. through the kindness of the following ladies and gentlemen—Mrs. W. 0. Atkinson, Mrs. F. Atkinson, Mrs. Begot, Mrs. Clarke, Mr. Cooper, Mrs. C. Cooper, Mrs. Davenport, Mrs. Donovan, Mrs. A. Emery, Mrs. Featherstone, Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. C. Machin, Mrs. G. Maohin, Miss Morgan, Mrs. A. Rol.lesion, Mrs. G. Ramon, Mrs. and Mies Ryland, Mrs. Shakespeare. Me'. Wiley, and Mrs. R. P. Yatee—provided the children with • bountiful supply of tea, Oike, buns, oranges eta Mr. Hogg further added that evergreens for the decoration of the Workhouse during the festal season were received from Mr. Alston, Witton; Mr. Bosworth, The Firs, Castle Bromwich; Mr. E. F. Todd, Walmley; and the authorities of Sutton Park. "Graphics" were also received from Mr. Hughes, Orleans House, Chester-road, for the use of the inmates. On the motion of the Chairman, the Clerk was inetruoted to write to Mrs. Wills, Miss Atkinson, eta, and thank them for their kindness.  The Chairman referred in feeling tenni, to the low Mr. J. Evans, a member of the Board, had sustained by the wiexpeoted death of his wife, and moved a vote of eancinlenos with him in thie his bereavement Mr. Hateley seconded, and the motion wae carried.  The following was the relief return for the week ending 6th January: Amount of out-door relief, £59 12a. 21d., corresponding week last year, £4B 9a 5d.; number of out-door poor relieved, 1,169, corresponding week last year, 1,000; paupers admitted into the Workhouse 50, born in ditto 3, discharged 31, died 4, remaining in Workhouse 1,225, corresponding week last year 1,229; children in Workhouse kkhools 212 (boys 106, girls 106), corresponding week last year 212 (boys 105, girls 107); children boarded out 96 (boys 57, girls 39), corresponding week last year 106 (boys 55. girls 51); vagrants relieved in Workhouse 200 (men 182, we:min 17, tiltd 1), corresponding week last year 105 (men 9, women 6, children 4); vagrants relieved out of the Workhouse, 89; lunatics in asylum 400, oorresponding week last year 363; children in oeritifi,ecl schools 64 (boys 36. girls 28), corresponding week last year 55 (boys 30, girls 25).  wrIMI AO-WU taking morphia _..d been -heard to prsviously Itesulo,d, with a SundaPititt Monday - domed*. altittei. On 1 very ill mid ismitiosd in bed. firearms WM heard, mad a so. Isettlleundide mother wit the regiva, of ;the hem* Si p_eighboar deposed that . said she would oommit suicide were „Ake of her boya—Mr. Charles Gaskin, was celled to the dsoessed, deposed whilst in • dying obndition. She herself. As the result of a y able to say that .. verdict of