... magistrates he acknowledged that his was the hand which committed the murder, and that his chil- dren would be better in the workhouse than with his wife, who was always drinking. Mr. West made a powerful speech for the defence, arguing that the deed had been ...

... of the rope. His brother refusing, after this occurrence, to maintain him, an order was made for his admission into the workhouse. He had once before attempted to hang himself in a cell at the station-house, while await- ing an examination on a charge ...

... came to Liverpool, and went on board the Isaac Webb ia the hope that she would be allowed to follow. She was taken to the workhouse, from whence she will, no doubt, be sent back to her own country. AN OPINION ON HONEST JOHN !—The Bath Chronicle thus speaka ...

... and was never thrown in his life. Latterly it has been discovered that the veteran champion was on the verge of the Union Workhouse. Mr. Langdon, of the Bull Inn, Exeter, commenced a subscription on his behalf, and in answer to his appeal a large number ...

... relations refused to pay her the interest on the 3,0001., and she was positively pwnnileas. She had tried to get into the workhouse, but they refused to receive her there, so she was there with a freehold house, 3,0001. in money, and an estate in the West ...

... convicted of the manslaughter of a child of three years and a quarter old by beating it with a stick in the Northampton Union workhouse. Itwasproved in evidence that the child was so beaten, and that he was then thrown into the playroom, striking the brick ...

... Cleasby, an independent person, believed to be 70 years of age, and possessed of property, died on Wednes- day last in Chelsea workhouse without the knowledge of hei friends or relatives, having been removed from her owi: house upon a visiting order of the parish ...

... s|)l,sal, and, moreover, it has been found that grey iHs shabby sooner than the other colours, and ac- 1 urea a Bort of workhouse look which is neither i(Ja8iI1g nor soldierhke. MOST DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—In a collision p'11?'* 0C(;urred on the 8th inst ...

... their being treated as malcon- tents, and dismissed from the asylum. Scholefield re- turned to Atherton, and was in the workhouse there for six months, and then undertook his remarkable walk to London. About Midsummer last the Governors of Henshaw's Asylum ...

... showed that the pressure was felt by all classes, but especially small farmers, shopkeepers, and labourers, the extent of workhouse relief being no test of the amount of real pauperism. He simply stated facts, he said, and left the responsibility to the ...

... eleven years of age, very thinly clad for such a time of year, and in a state of great exhaustion, was brought to him to the workhouse, and, on examining him, he was quite shocked at finding an iron manacle, weighing upwards of two pounds, made fast to his ...

... inevitably come to find them utterly penniless, victims to the frippery of a foolish fashion, with no shelter beyond the workhouse, no home beyond the heartless streets. ...