Inquests Open In Chelsea Hampstead Poplar and Stepney
Chelsea yesterday hear several inquests into deaths linked to accidents and drinking. Sarah Eagles, 82, died after a fall in a cellar accident and pneumonia. Annie Baker, 46, suffocated by a towel rack amid alcoholism. Nathan Hollingaworth, 60, died after distress and alleged street fall. John Robert Kenward, 57, died from brain hemorrhage after a beer cellar fall. Mary, a 69 year old servant, died from syncope due to chronic alcoholism.
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Chelsea
Drew
Sarah Eagles
Thomas Hill
Mabel Paine
Lebrodet
Hampstead
Annie Eliza Baker
Goldhurst Terrace
Barnett
Poplar
Lamont
Pueblican
John Robert Kenwaard
Milner-street
Ernest Maskell
Alexander McFarlane
Stepney inquiry into death of 10 month old Gridland
An inquiry at Stepney examined the death of Ethel Rose Gridland aged 10 months daughter of a police sergeant. The infant died after hospital admission delays and alleged opposition by a relieving officer. Medical evidence cited erysipelas and convulsions. verdict supported medical evidence with a rider criticizing Mile End infirmary treatment.
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Baxter
Stepney
Ethel Rose Gridland
Imi Investigation Department
H Division
Benrab-street
Children’s Hospital
Mile-end
William Cridland
Mead
Sidney Bert Mead
Reatory Square
Whitley
Mile-end Infirmary
Brooks
Othe
Garden Guide Restores Color and Preserves Steventug
Readable ad fragment notes garden and color restoration efforts at a place named Steventug with preferences for preservation. Mentions garden and restoration services and a list of offerings.
Tramps Sentenced at Chester Workhouse
Across the United Kingdom report of Chester two tramps John O'Brien and Frederick Johnson each sentenced to 14 days hard labour for refusing to complete tasks at Chester workhouse after admitting to the casual ward and cutting only half the usual wood. Crewe boy Thames Fidgen, Irish home, stowaway from Wolverhampton to Crewe, remanded to the workhouse. Derby: Sir Thomas and Lady Roe receive illuminated address and gifts at Albert Hall wedding ceremony. Dover: Malvern sails short of coal and must replace lascar crew with white sailors before Denmark trip. Dudley: inquest returns open verdict into Martha Jane Aston found in Birmingham canal. Eccles: Patrick Breen committed for failing to maintain wife and family. owes 181 to Barton guardians. High Wycombe: George Lambourn sentenced to six weeks for stealing pork spare rib. meat found hidden in a bed. Little Hulton: Bolton firm to open large engineering works employing 600–800. Wash colliery strike enters 27th week. Manchester: Postmaster General Lord Stanley reviews 250 telegraph messenger lads with drill and gymnastics display. Newcastle: Loch Maree sinking inquiry finds heavy sea caused capsizing. several dead. Northwich: vagrancy issue grows. soup kitchen opened. two men jailed for seven days under Vagrancy Act. Pontefract: Thomas Horner fined 20s for endangering miners at Ackton Hall. scene of tubs and near-misses. Poplar drowned in canal. Sheffield: county court finds for plaintiff in file-cutting steel dispute. quality questioned. Yarmouth: body of Simon Addy identified in harbour after drowning.
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Little Hulton
Bolton
Highfield Road
Streetgate
Wash
Manchester
Lord Stanley
Arill
W B. Manchester Regiment
Phillips
Sergi
Fogg
Newcastle-On-Tyne
Board of Trade
Loch Maree
Dundes Loch Line Company
Odessa
Hamburg
Mediterranean
Alfred Allison
Northwich
Cheshire
Legion
Alfred Clifford
John Baidford
London
Rights of Married Women at Westminster Police Court
An elderly Pimlico boarding-house proprietor sought judicial separation after her husband, sent to an Inebriates Home in Cambridge last October, returned home. She claimed she did not want him as his presence harmed her business. Mr Sheil advised she is not bound to live with him and may keep him out, stressing a wife can be as independent as a man.
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Pimlico
Sheil
Westminster
Cambridge
Beini
Mr. Sheil
Mr. Skeil
W. J. Hawken
H.M
Repulse
Victor Evans
Victor Vivian
Plymouth
Spiddleton House
Swansea
Karnes Grannd
Nisi
Costa
Jury Stop A Case In Libel Suit At King's Bench
In the King's Bench Division on Wednesday a special jury and Mr Justice Ridley ended the libel action by barrister Le Mesurier against printers J and D Ferguson of the Ceylon Observer. Le Mesurier claimed false charges about exploiting his Civil Service position to obtain native land. The dispute followed his divorce case resolved by Privy Council, his Mohammedan marriage, and subsequent dismissal.
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King’s Bench
Justice Ridley
le Mesurier
Divorce case recalls Bardell v Pickwick with flowers
Mr Justice Barnes heard the petition of operatic singer Mr David Bispham for divorce on adultery with two co-respondents, Mr Robert Shaw and Major Howard Studdert. The jury found neither Bispham nor co-respondents guilty. costs awarded against Bispham. Separate later notices cover other divorces with varying co-respondents and damages, including cases involving Mr F. S. Barton and Lieut. W. J. Hawken. judgments nisi and costs granted.
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Justice Barnes
David Bispham
Robert Newton Shaw
Major Howard Studdert
Justice Barres
Major Studdert
Boston
Shaw
Mrs. Bispham
Cochrane
George
Old Bailey
Art of Appeal
Bucknill
Confession on the Scaffold at Aldershot executions
William Brown and Thomas Cowdrey, convicted of Esther Atkins murder, were executed at Winchester on Wednesday. The fusilier and laborer mounted the scaffold at two minutes to eight after brief last words. Brown confessed before death. Cowdrey proclaimed innocence and claimed Brown was the killer. Doctors said death was instantaneous. Three reporters witnessed.
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Winchester
William Brown
Royal Scots Fusiliers
Thomas Cowdrey
Lsbourer
Esther Atkins
Aldershot
Convicta
Brown
William Billington
Cowdrey
Billington
Awdrey
Execution at Hereford for Wife Murder in Quarry
William Haywood aged 61 a roadman and quarryman was executed at Hereford on Tuesday for murdering his wife Jane in a Leominster quarry in July. He showed indifference until days before the sentence then prayed and admitted the justice of the penalty saying ink caused the crime. He faced the scaffold calmly and death was instantaneous. Executioner Henry Pierrepoint aided by John Ellis.
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William Haywood
Hereford
Jane
Leominster
Henry Pierrepoint
John Ellis
The Wombwell Murder Executions Set For Dec 29
The High Sheriff of Yorkshire announces the date Dec 29 for the execution of John Gallagher and Emily Swann, detained at Armley gaol, for the murder of William Swann husband of the female prisoner.
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Yorkshire
John Gallagher
Emily Swann
Armley
William Swann
Two Reprieves for Samuel Redfearn Murder Case
The death sentence for Samuel Redfearn, a farm servant, for murdering a servant girl named Temple at Normanton has been commuted to penal servitude. A separate report notes the king’s clemency in another Kinerton case, reducing a murder sentence to life or 14 years of penal servitude.
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Samuel Redfearn
Temple
Guaranteed Cure Ad Apparent From Fragment
An artifact ad fragment promotes a cure for itching bleeding and irritation. It mentions a price, a Paris reference, and a mysterious chemical claim, but the text is garbled with stray letters and incomplete names.
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Paris
Smyth Sues for Divorce Over Alleged Misconduct
Elkindon hall justice W B Smyth sought a divorce from his wife on Friday citing misconduct by the wife with co respondent Hollenborg an American. The case Smyth v Smyth and Barclay heard in June and July ended with a jury disagreement and a supplemental petition followed after new facts about the co respondent emerged.
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W. B. Smyth
Elkindon Hall
Lincolnshire
Hollenborg
Smyth
Italian smith remanded for attempted murder in Clerkenwell
At Clerkenwell police court Munzio Caliendo aged 34 described as a Gray's Inn Road blacksmith was remanded on the charge of attempting to murder Virgilio Cutolo by firing a revolver in Warner Street Clerkenwell. The attack occurred during a December quarrel. Cutolo was wounded in the lower body and taken to the Royal Free Hospital.
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Clerkenwell
Munzio Caliendo
Gray’s Inn-Road
Virgilio Cutelo
Warner-street
Frayling
Treasury
Margetta
Warner Street
Cutolo
Royal Free Hospital
J. Danning
The
Christmas Day Post Office Operations
The Post Office announces that on Christmas Day the General Post Office and several offices will open for stamps and telegraphs but money orders savings bank business and parcel acceptance will be suspended. Night mail collections continue from open receptacles and inland and foreign mails dispatch as usual. no parcel collections. first morning delivery in London only. express letters to provinces may be posted for night mail dispatch.
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General Post Office
Savings Bank
London
Education official urges cookery in elementary schooling
Parliamentary Secretary Sir William Anson spoke at Preston during prize distribution at Harris Technological and Scientific Institution. He urged cookery and woodwork to play larger roles in elementary education, suggesting temperance reformers could use cookery to curb drinking linked to indigestion. The American liner St Louis arrived in Southampton with a heavy Christmas mail from the United States, totaling 2,017 sacks.
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Briver Cooxina
William Anson
Board of Education
Preston
Harris Technological and Scientific Institution
Ame Rica
St. Louis
Southampton
United States
A Safe Remedy for Blood Diseases Promoted
An old advertisement extols Blood Mixture the world purifier and restorer with forty years of reputation for curing skin and blood diseases. It claims the remedy cures permanently and prevents disease from arising, urging readers to test the product despite unclear details about Clarke Samed and the medicine.
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Clarke Samed
Clarke's Blood Mixture promises cures for numerous ailments
The advertisement extols Clarke's Blood Mixture as a safe, permanent remedy to cleanse the blood and bones of gout rheumatic pains skin diseases ulcers and other afflictions. It claims taste is pleasant and suitable for all ages and cites thousands of cures with recent examples.
Clarke's Blood Mixture credited for relief from acute rheumatism
Mr E Cowell of 19 St Johns Quay Dubelin recounts years of suffering from acute rheumatism and failed remedies. After trying Clarke's Blood Mixture he reports relief after one bottle and full healing after four, despite work requiring contact with many sufferers. He endorses the medicine to others.
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E. Cowell
St. John's Quay
Dubelin
Clarke
Clarke's Blood Mixture Cures Eczema and Skin Trouble
Letter from Mr. W. G. Weston reporting long term eczema and irritating skin relief after using Clarke's Blood Mixture. He describes prior hospital diagnosis linked to horse care, noting substantial improvement by April 4 and complete cure by July 17, 1903, and offers to answer inquiries.
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W. G. Weston
Clarke
Clarke's Blood Mixture Promoted for Blood Purity Fasts
An advertisement touts Clarke's Blood Mixture as a universal remedy for skin and blood ailments. It claims cures for eczema blood poison scrofula and gout, with bold claims of worldwide testimonials and prices in bottles and six-bottle cases.
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