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EXTRAORDINARY POISONING CASE AT THE MANCHESTER WORKHOUSE

... hav- ing caused the death of Mr Andrew Harris, ?? senior resident medical officer of the ir workhouse and with also having poisoned two e attendants in the workhouse. n Detective Henderson said-I apprehended the . prisoner last night on this charge. I said ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT A WARWICKSHIRE WORKHOUSE

... engaged ' esterday for nearly five hoors in investigating the circuamstauces attending the death of a pauper of Io Pseill Workhouse, named EphraimN Villi=saon. a 1eecaed, iwho saffered frons drepsy, had been I found in bed in the intirrmary ward with wonods ...

THREATRENING THE PRINCE OF [ill]

... to show that the prisoner, who was r an inmate of Fulham Workhouse, was absent that s day, and that the letter weas in his handwriting. I Thomas Brown said he was porter at St George's s Workhouse, Fulham. He had known prisoner as t an inmate there for ...

KIDNAPPING OF A CHILD BY A PRIEST

... priest's conduct. He said it was certainly hard to say that the child had not been brought i to the workhouse by design. In his opinion the master of the workhouse had taken a most un- warrantable course, and had been guilty of a .seriouslyandgravelywrong s ...

A BRADFORD RELIEVING OFFICER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER

... Monday, the deceased and his wife went to thdl workhouse to - t e Mr Burniaton, the relieving officesS oi the Brad. ford east district, in the hope of obtainin~g for the de. ceased admission into the workhouse. 'The officer refused to give him an order for ...

A SELF-ACCUSED MURDERESS

... all its details as to leave apparently no room for doubt. It appears that in May last she went Into the EcelesaC l Union Workhouse, taking with her one child of about two years, and soon after- wards she gave birth to another child. Upon re. covering from ...

A SHOCKING CASE

... said that she preferred taking it to the workhouse, where it bad been born. This course was the one adopted, and on the 17th instant Mooney yoked his horse and cart, and drove them into-the Dungannon Workhouse. The child was then very ill, and died on ...

THE WICKLOW PEERAGE CASE

... with a man called Jonas in 1864, and found myself in the family way by him. In July of that year I went into the Liverpool Workhouse, and was confined on the 16th of August following. T'e child was a boy. I was in the lying-ii ward. I know Mrs Higginsun ...

A SAD AND CRUEL CASE

... them. He, therefore, charged them with being destitute, and the next day Mr. Ellison ordered them to be conveyed to the workhouse. He directed in. quiries to be made after their mother. Faringdon afterwards reported that he had found the mother half drunk ...

THE SINGULAR PAUPER WILL CASE

... inmate of the workhouse, named Joseph Smart, alleged to be heir to extensive pro. perties in Leiceetershire and Staffordshire. The House Committee submitted a report of a further examination of Smart, the master and matron of the workhouse, and other witnesses ...

SHOCKING CASE OF STARVATION OF A FAMILY IN LONDON

... did you go to the workhouse as I asked you, and ?? have given you relief? He replied- '..eywould know we applied there he ,. . Nonaene you us relief.3 Wits' sinter and they refused they eali ' . 4stheh went to the workhouse, and ;. -40o andwork ...