... ESCAPED LUNATIC'S DEATH. The death from exhaustion of a man named Valentine Beldam, in the workhouse at Old Windsor, was the sequel to a dramatic escape of a lunatic in a private asylum, whose dash for liberty cost him his life. Beldam, who was 48 years ...

... that two men had been convicted for refusing to do their task of stone-breaking. The clerk said they preferred gaol to the workhouse, as they were better treated. Mr. Carter thought it a cruel shame to make men work from seven in the morning to at night ...

... established of a woman who some weeks ago was found wandering at Portiabead, near Bristol, and was taken to the Long Ashton Workhouse. She was well educated, well dressed, and played the piano skilfully, to the delight of the staff and inmates. Her portrait ...

... GOLF FOR THE POOR. A novelty the shape of golf for workhouse inmates has been introduced in Busse:. The proposal was made on Tuesday at the meeting of the Guardians of East Basyning Union (which includes part of Brighton), when • recommendation,. which ...

... damage to a window at the local workhouse. j c was then stated that she has developed an Indraordinary habit of chewing pine and needles, and since her return from Llantrimant, neat Cardiff, to the Pontypool Workhouse, a large number of these articles ...

... Union Workhouse, fur the Thirteen Weeks ending the 2-nd of Jaw* next. B The Bread to one day old, and delivered at rah times and places as the Relieving Officers of the dittricU shall require, and to be paid for monthly. 1 The I* .ion Workhouse and the ...

... COALS, for the Uniun Workhouse, for tho Weeks ending December next. N.B.—The Dread be ono day old, and delivered such times and places tho Relieving Officers of tho Districts shall require, and to be Raid fur Monthly. Union Workhouse and Parishes of Newport ...

... George's (Hanover -square) Board of Guardians. It was stated that an elderly man named Stanton, who has been an inmate of the workhouse for over twenty years, had been discovered to be possessed of about £1,400 in Consols, receiving therefrom a weekly income ...

... age, to the Grimsby workhouse, but when a neighbour went to the house to take her away she found tiro woman dead, with an empty laudanum bottle by her side. Thompson bad p-eviously remarked that she preferred death to the workhouse. ...

... convicted at Lincoln Assizes of the rare offence of committing a burglary at a workhouse. It was proved that he succeeded in possessing himself of L 8 in cub from the workhouse offices. The prisoner conducted his own defence very cleverly, so cleverly, indeed ...

... are desirous I. of receiving Tender. for Altering and Renovating the Hearse at the Union Workhouse. The Hoene can be seen on applying to the Master of the Workhouse, and other particulars otsained of Mr 0. W lirrneon, the Surveyor to the Oustdiens, at Lie ...

... Union Workhouse, for the Thirteen Weeks ending the Ist of January next. The Dread to be one day old, and delivered at such times and places the Relieving Officers of the districts shall require, and to be paid for monthly. 1. Tka Union Workhouse and the ...