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WORKHOUSE MASTERS AND REFRACTORY PAUPERS

... WORKHOUSE MASTERS AND REFRACTORY PAUPERS. A case, which has excited much notice among Yorkshire poor law administrators, was decided by the Leeds Stipendiary Magistrate on Tuesday- Mr. Scholes, the task master at the Leeds Work- bouse, caught an old pauper ...

Published: Friday 21 January 1881
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MURDER IN A DUBLIN WORKHOUSE

... MURDER IN A DUBLIN WORKHOUSE. On Saturday an inmate of the South Union Workhouse, Dublin, named Margaret Johnstone, was killed in a quarrel with another female, named Eliza Thompson, who slept in the same ward. they were locked up for the night by the ...

Published: Friday 30 September 1881
Newspaper: Star of Gwent
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FATAL AFFRAY IN A WORKHOUSE

... FATAL AFFRAY IN A WORKHOUSE. A [ - piat affray took place in Plymouth Workhouse on Saturday. Two lunatics getting into an altercation in the absence of the warders, • struggle ennuel, and one thrin, named Blake, flung the other, namcd Foot, to the ground ...

Published: Friday 11 December 1885
Newspaper: Star of Gwent
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ENTERTAINMENT AT ABERGAVENNY UNION WORKHOUSE

... ENTERTAINMENT AT ABERGAVENNY UNION WORKHOUSE. On Monday evening the inmates of the Workhouse, both old and young, were provided with an entertainment, got up for them by Capt. W. Williams. The Philharmonic Band, and a few of the members of St. Mary's ...

Published: Friday 02 December 1881
Newspaper: Abergavenny Chronicle
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SERIOUS RIOT IN A WORKHOUSE

... SERIOUS RIOT IN A WORKHOUSE. On Saturday night a serious riot occurred among tbe paupers of Alnerbury Union. It appears that the master of the House was about to go to bed, when he heard cries of' Murder. and then found a number of paupers in the young ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1881
Newspaper: Star of Gwent
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ATTACK ON A WORKHOUSE PORTER._

... ATTACK ON A WORKHOUSE PORTER._ While George Chandler, porter at Braintree Workhouse, was seeing as named Jobe Kotley to a' bed in a separate ward on Saturday night, Ketley attacked him with a piece of iroa he had enameled, then rifled his poosets, and ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1889
Newspaper: Star of Gwent
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

VIOLENT ALTERCATION AT NEWPORT WORKHOUSE

... VIOLENT ALTERCATION AT NEWPORT WORKHOUSE. THE CLERK ASSAULTED. At Saturday's meeting of the Newport Board of Guardian., Mr W. D. Evans, the clerk, drew attention to a personal Twitter. A week ago Mr Phillip Gale and Mr Noah Davies, the snreties for Mr ...

Published: Friday 18 March 1887
Newspaper: Star of Gwent
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 841 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DREADFUL MURDER IN A LONDON WORKHOUSE

... DREADFUL MURDER IN A LONDON WORKHOUSE. Between seven and eightthe evening of the 29th tilt. a shocking murder was committed in the infirmary which is attached to the City of London Union, situate in the Mile-end •red. From the facts as they can be at ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1880
Newspaper: Abergavenny Chronicle
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 507 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH OF A NOBLEMAN IN A WORKHOUSE

... DEATH OF A NOBLEMAN IN A WORKHOUSE. Another impressive illustration of mutability of human affairs is afforded by the miserable death, as a pauper inmato of a provincial American workhouse, of Count Massena, a son of the famous Marshal of France upon ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1880
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

R/OT P A WORKHOUSE

... R/OT P A WORKHOUSE. - M Croydoe to-day him.des at the work- Irene were charged with rioting on Sunday even. impland with attempting to stab the master. A imam wee removed from the dining hall when a ghost was raised to the TIMM. Pots and ether earlisies ...

Published: Monday 26 October 1885
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Telegram
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHOCKING ALLEJATIONS AGAINST WORKHOUSE PEOPLE

... denied this statement, and said he saw the two children on their discharge from the workhouse, and found them in really a Moreover, the Shannon when sent into the workhouse had very fine golden hair. Four it live inches bad been eat off, and be bad information ...

Published: Thursday 15 November 1888
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Telegram
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 409 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A Nairport Centenarian. DEATH IN THE WORKHOUSE

... . DEATH IN THE WORKHOUSE. On Screia — yTtiTai; - naiii - eTlialph Williams died at the Workhouse. Several of his relatives assert that had he lived two days longer he wonld have reached the age of 100 years. On enquiry at the Workhouse on Monday afternoon ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1888
Newspaper: Star of Gwent
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 7 | Tags: none