Inquests Report Fatal Falls and Private Suicides
A London coroner’s report details several inquests. Barbara Paris 91 died after a fall from bed on Nov 26 and bronchitis. William Howard 95 fell downstairs on Dec 15. Edward Bater 70 struck by a cab on Christmas Eve. Charles Robert Lancaster 19 months died after clothes caught fire in Soho. Joseph Freeman 4 burned in Camden Town. Emily McEntee 47 drank oxalic acid after distress. George Carr 45 found with gas line tied to mouth. Verdicts: accidental death, accidental death, accidental death, death by own action, and death by own action respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marylebone
Schroeder
Barbara Paris
Somerset-street
Portmanaquare
Mr. Schroeder
St Pancras
William Howard
Castle Road
Kentish Town
St. Pancras
Edward Bater
Grafton
Place
Euston-square
Royal Free Hospital
St. Pancraa
Joseph Freeman
Pleasant-row
Camden-town
North- West London Hospital
North Kensington
E. Tinger
George Carr
Ampthill - Square
Hempstead Road
William Walker
St. Pancras Cemetery
Art and museum notes for London galleries and legal notices
Reopening shows at Corporation Gallery Guildhall and new acquisitions at National Portrait Gallery. Tate displays Chantry pictures. Dudley Gallery landscape exhibit opens Jan 1. Leicester Gallery hosts late Thomas Collisr works with private view Jan 8. Also libel clarification for London General Omnibus and Education Act dates for UK counties. Prisoner escape report from Southwark court notes Arthur Bagabey failed to appear for drunkenness. escape details given by Inspector Andrews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Kensington Museum
Leighton
Millais
Keene
Dudley
Thomas Collisr
Leicester Gallery
RB. I. Kingham
London General Omnibus Company
John Robert Lawson
Old Briley
William Joyngon Hicks
Board of Education
Denbigh
Flint
Cardiff
Darlington
Lianell
Southport
Anglesey
Cardigan
Monmouth
Pembroke
Southwark
Arthur Bagabey
Goolery Allchurch
Andrews
Kennington-road
Multiple Late 19th Century British Accidents and Incidents
Barrow residents report a crushed foot amputation after a train fall, a Barrow man with a broken ankle, a street accident, and a girl burned when her apron caught fire. A Birkenhead jeweller’s shop burned, and a Blackburn case notes a long cost to the local union. Derby dealer Thomas Cox dies. Gosport man fined for drunkenness and assault. Leeds thefts and loitering, Northwich drowning inquiry, Plymouth prison medical appointments, Rhyl Bank holiday festivities, and a firing at Lye Cross colliery with mass layoffs. Sheffield crowd panic at a fair and a Sunderland suicide, with Walkden burglaries and a Winsford gas explosion.
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Barrow
Patrick McGlinn
Ulverston
John Henry New
Joseph Thompson
Marion Crow
North Lonsdale Hospital
Birkenhead
Gerald Hall
Old
Chester Road
Rhys Rhyl
Queen’s Palace
Poor Relief Committee
Queen’s Hotel
Palace Syndicate
Lord Dudley
Lye Cross
Sheffield
Sunderland
William Tate
Monkwearmouth
Christmas Day Celebrations Across London Greet Thousands
Large congregations filled London churches on Christmas Day with festive decorations and special music. At St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey the services were led by Deans, while hospitals and workhouses distributed meals, gifts, and comforts funded by the royal family and charitable groups. Military units held dinners and events at barracks across the city, including Woolwich and the Tower, with additional treats for families and sailors.
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London
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Dean Gregory
Westminster Abbey
Robinson
City of London
Moat Farm Change of Ownership After Murded Event
The Moat Farm at Clavering remains largely unchanged after the murder of Miss Holland. Executives ordered no public sale. on Christmas Day Hubert Cowley of Blunsden near Swindon bought the whole farm stock furniture clothing and a motor car through a private treaty. Miss Holland's belongings were removed by relatives. Cowley has since received hundreds of job applications and offers to buy or rent the property.
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Clavering
Miss Holland
Dougall
Hubert Cowley
Blunsden
Swindon
Moat Farm
Cowley
Doll for a Heroine Firemen's Gift to a Brave Girl
Six year old Lizzie Smith saved her baby brother during a December fire at a Kettering home. She carried him through smoke to safety as flames burned the bed. Firemen presented a doll and a postal gift from London, with funds raised locally for her until age 21.
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Kettering
Lizzie Smith
Kettering Fire Brigade
London
Baby
Lizzie
Mr. Smith
Circus at Auction Turmoil at East Finchley Sale
About 400 people attended a sheriff ordered sale of Lords George the Original circus at Park Farm East Finchley. Sanger bought the outfit for 120000 pounds with 41666 pounds in shares. another elephant seized a hat. 200 horses and ponies sold cheap. four trained elephants camels leopards and lions fetched varied prices. Sanger bought two lions and boasted of a war fund lion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Farm
East Finchley
Lord George
R. Limited
J. Odell
Sanger
Morriss
Morrissa
George
Read Family Tragedy At Yarmouth Inquest On Tugmaster
In Yarmouth an inquest heard how tug United Service master Thomas Robert Read fell into the water after banking fires on Wednesday night. His son Sidney Read, home on furlough, dived to save him, but both men were endangered when the wheel floated by. Despite efforts and artificial respiration, the tugmaster died. The soldier spoke of three furloughs ending in funerals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yarmouth
Thomas Robert Read
Sidney Read
United Service
New Commander-in-Chief at the Nore
Vice-Admiral H. L. Pearson will hoist his flag on the Immortalité on New Year's Day as Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. He succeeds Admiral Sir A. H. Markham, who has led the Nore command since November 1, 1901.
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Nexs
H. L. Pearson
The
Nore
A. H. Markham
Burglary Hunt on Weat-end Roofs Leads to Police Chase
Exciting early morning chase in the Weat-end as officers searched roofs around Princes-street flats for burglars. No trace found. belief formed they signalled to servants. A separate incident near Peterborough Palace yielded a bag of burglary tools and a pursued intruder. A Christmas morning assault on Constable Houseman followed. An 18 month old, Harold Tune, died in Barnsley from match sulfur poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princes-streat
Regent-street
Great Marlborough Street
Peterborough Palace
Houseman
Suchine Marouys
Harold Raymond Tune
Marlborough Terrace
Barnsley
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Charles Robert Lancaster
Bateman Street
Soho Square
Middlesex Hospital
Corporation Gallery
Guildhall
John Gilbert
Wolsey
Henry
United Kingdom
Blackburn
Matilda Lemar
Lancaster
James McAndrew
Hornby-street
McAndrew
Derby
Thomas Cox
Beatown Freemasons
England
Derbyshire
Royal Arch
Gosport
William King
Leeds
Robert Kendrick
Hannan-street
Whitechapel
Hannah Lister
Hyde Park
Joseph Barrett
Kendrick
Barrett
Northwich
Moulton
Ernest Pimlott
Murtford Lane
Leftwich
Pimlott
Plymouth
H.M
Princetown
Trews
Dyer
Stafford
Mander
Wandsworth
Dartmoor
Walkden
Little Hulton
Winsford
Clarendon Hall
Chalton-street
Somerstown
Christian Nurses’ Union
Cripple Home
Mary- Jebone Read
Father Christmas
Ragged School Union
Shaftesbury Society
Church Army
Miss Child
Canningtown
Princess of Wales
Salvation Army
Percy Jakins
Model Soup Kitchen
Einston Road
Metropolitan Barracks
Wellington
Scots Guards
Guards
Oliphant
1St Grenadiers
Chelsea
Tower
Royal Garrison Artillery
Hamilton
Woolwich Garrison
Woolwich
Royal Artillery
Oxford
Queen’s College, Oxford
St. Edward’s School
Summertown
the Moat Farm
Lizzie Smith Amoke
Everards
Ent
Christian Herald
Home Circle
Tudor Street
Red Lion-Court
Fleet-Street
Nature
Skule
Skush’s Herbal
Boots
Taylors
Glomists, &c
Ast
Rosalind
Defona
E, Skuse
Harrow Road
Skuse’s
Albert
Parringdon-street
Rts
Ove Sue
Buck and CO
Andrew's Wild London
E.U
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