... WOLVES AND WORKHOUSE Asked by the Recorder if he was not capable of saying he would not sign the promissory note for £560, witness replied: “The position was that if I had refused to sign it he told us he would throw us to the wolves and we should find ...

... “WORKHOUSE” NAME Mr. l orn Lah., Norinamon, moved ainondnieiP to delete the section Clause h makes allowances certain cases eondiiioual upon the «ant becoming inmate workhouse. Inciden’allY lie raid thought the term ••workhouse” had been ab*dished la'our ...

... WORKHOUSE DISTURBANCE. Described refractory pauper, Mary Smith, a Sheffield woman, was fined 205., or seven days’ imprisonment, Doncaster, yesterday, for creating a disturbance at Doncaster Workhouse on Saturday night. Mrs. Dorothy Lambert, a portress ...

... The Workhouse Menu. The tramp must have been a comparatively happy individual yesterday, tor on that day came into force the new Order issued by the Minister of Health abolishing the stone breaking test in the workhouses, and, what would be more welcome ...

... still in the early 3o’.s, has taken a practical method of learning the truth about Christmastide in the workhouse. After Christmastide tour workhouses, let say hope is that the new regulations about to, come before the House of Commons will set new standard ...

... WORKHOUSE INMATE’S DEATH. Fractured Spine After 30-Feet Jump. At inquest held at Pontefract Workhouse yesterday on George Barraclough (41), platelayer, of 13, North Bailcygate, Pontefract, who died in the Union Infirmary on Sunday, it was stated that ...

... ASKED WAY TO WORKHOUSE Yesterday a girl answering the description of the girl in the green hat spoke to the commissionaire at the Town Hall and inquired the way to the workhouse. She said she had nowhere to go. She was told she was too young to go to ...

... CHILD PREFERS WORKHOUSE. HATFIELD FATHERS BRUTALITY. father was year-old yirl Court, yesterday. Joseph Telford, A ivisli to stay t rather than bach t expressed at Thorne I’oli Her fattier labourer, of Hatfield, near Doncaster, was sent to prison for a ...

... FORMER WORKHOUSE MATRON death has occurred of Mrs. Elizabeth Wood, who for years acted as matron of the Grenoside Workhouse. Mrs. Wood, who was in her 92nd year, died in London. Fall from Ladder.—When working ladder at the back of the Royal Oak, Altercliffe ...

... NAMING A WORKHOUSE. Why Duchess of York's Cousin Objects. Captain G. F. Bowes-Lyon, Redbourn House, Redbourn, Herts, wrote to the Hemcl Hempstead Public Assistance Committee complaining of their action in naming the Poor Law Institution, Redbourn House ...

... Letter from Workhouse. Four days later the doctor received a letter from Garcia written from Southampton Workhouse, saying: I positive you will forgive impersonation and magnanimously acquit Captain Townsend of deliberate and calculated fraud. On no account ...

... THE “WORKHOUSE BRAT” ASSET TO THE STATE. ■' Sheffield as Pioneer in Dealing With Pauper Children. [FROM OUR OWN LONDON, Tuesday. ** Children and the Poor Law and Vagrancy were the problems discussed at the Conference of Public Assistance Officers, concluded ...