The Cotton Factory Times. — 1914-08-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

SOLD BY  GROCERS, DRYSALTERS, AND OILMEN  EVERYWHERE.  Ring Spinners' Love Tragedy.  Queeticrn s.—Asset:ming that you wore eye ceding an order for 40'srl Mastery yarn to be delivered on cones reedy for the knitting rnsehinee, desseribe in detail what machines --There we. a great sensation in the neighbour- and. appliances You would one for winding hood of the Bump Corporation reservoir at Sheep- this yarn iuto cone form, having regard houses, near Britannia, on Friday evening last, in to its soft nature. State what defects, connection with the disappearance of a young either in the yarn itself, or in the formamarried woman named Martha Alice Whitehead, tion of the cones:, give the moot ti-noble aced 27 years, a ring spinner, of Shawfortb, wife at the knitting machines, describing how of Mr. James Whitehead. You would recognise and remedy them. It seems that on Friday morning Martha Hannah Answer.—ln answering this question ti is not Pilling, the mother of the deceased, called her necessary to enter into any doscription of the daughter to go to her work at the mill at about process of knitting, or the mechanism of the five o'clock, and she replied that she would go knitting maehine. It is important for the tarespinaf eakfast. She left her bed, anti never saw her alive afterwards, About 5-30 the ev7en- nor -etudent to know what a hosiery Minseu or mg Sam Ainsworth, of B same ritannia., saw a woman si -a factre . mg -11 Ines wh be places an order f be d 1. red to the said maimneee the reeertetr• She Felled off her hat, and --rre'asrurreloonos. The' "'hosiery trade has very got OW. the wall of the reeervoir, and proceeded f:ce:tier • a and is in the direction of the water. After tea he came 'en- ,d•lngo 74:5eg Into the 'ever hie, Sacup, and told the police, and some members -,11,7-„--,!„,.;;,,--, s.;;Sa',.i:lin- • ted 'goods next of the Bacup police force proceeded to the reser- "it - •-ted voir with grappling irons, and endeavoured to re- !he akl,it, and t° the aaa ocid cover the body. It was lace at night when the in preference _.,",oven oem for mane other body wag got cat in the presence of the husband.l Generally .speaking, the taint rosswho identified it, and it was removed to her borne a'anta ler Tarn required for h....3f purposes Out await an inquest. On Mondry an inquest was are very lc)", owing to the usuallY nature livid sit shawforth by Coroner F. W. moh.worth, of knitted goods. Moreover, a good quantity Itoclidale.—Jas. Whitehead, the husband, mid he Of Yarn is often wanted on each iDdiridual last mw deceased ;dive at four o'clock On Friday cone intetuled for use at a knitting machine, as morning, when he went t,o work, lie told his wife there is generally ample creel spare at the lie ,krnizittefror,mans.ll4gt,:essiz,uilatieonele tos,hawvriiaend gui,newifnedwacowomido. pic,,abe at bine zaht.t 5-30 sod vtlierey.a:rheanrge.dli,the aStervercbs. thread pteeingss, and last a long time at. the Bridget Tkehe, wife of John Tighe. lineup, said knitting machinesdeceased had her dinner at witnese's house on Fri- Many spinning firms have erected winding due- They had some convernat " ion over a pereon Jr.... largely for the PurPose of meeting the i,ilhtrilxaity, who had bow her (deeeseed) he wanted requirements of holsery manufacturers, but for to hare nothing more to do with her, anti she one nee.on or another tintt,Y ho.iery People then mid "I will droem myself." witjiesend prefer to do their own winding. *Winding her vise would be a ally lam to do such a thing. framee for one thing are almost more appro. Labour and general se. to the female tirWitneee little dreamt that deoeased priat to drown herself, though it was now clear that it tooadttiga of a hosiery mailnfaetory than the was all through love that +she had drowned herself. conditions of a spirrning mill. The fact reDeceased was crying and breaking her heart about main. that ,Tinnery are, more er tern frets when the left witness. %sternly asked to supply yarn on large cones to The Coroners ramming up, said it one a etas, hosiery manufacturers. ea, of suieide. The woman had hem troubled in Experience appears to have clemonstretenl. sitters.t way., and them worth' be no diffieulty on the whole, that tones wound on the spindle wish ',rod to the verdict. minding frame are more likely to suit hosiery The iery ree,rocd a verdict of "Suicide while of peep], then iones wound on the demi winds 4, lnlbOUnd mind." although both machines are actually used for