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THE WORKHOUSE INQUIRY

... Austin, the assistant Poor Law Comnmissioecr, relative to the workhouse in 15 Whitei'riargate, which. was commenced on Thursday U1P week, end adjourned, was resuimed onl Friday, at the an workhouse. oh The first witness examined was mc! Mr. Rlobert Craven ...

WORKHOUSE INQUIRY

... Oldisam said that 00 making his calcullations respecting the workhouse, be hail exclusively confined himself to the area of thle workhouse pro - perty. He should think the drain from the workhouse would have a fallof eight feet-reekroningfrom the surface ...

DESPERATE RIOT IN A WORKHOUSE

... |DESPERATE RIOT IN A WORKHOUSE, lid One of the mosi extraordinary and dangerous riotis that ever took place within the walls of even an Irish Union-house, In commenced in the workhouse of the city of Cerk. at four ra, o'clock on Sunday aternoon, and lasted ...

CHARGE AGAINST A WORKHOUSE

... ICHARGE AGAINST A WORKHOUSE I SCHOOLMASTER. On Friday James Whidett, schoolmaster at th Derby W~orkhouse, was summoned by Chari-s Wallis painter, of Derby. for assaulting George Hatton, a boy. Mr. Shond, of Nottingham, appeared for zhe con- plainant, ...

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE, NEAR THE BIRMINGHAM WORKHOUSE

... occasion brought him before the magistrates, and it would ap- pear that after that he deserted her. Upon that she went into the workhouse, taking her only child with her. After she had been there some two or three weeks, the authorities served the husband with ...

THE POOR LAW INQUIRY AT FARNHAM WORKHOUSE

... TXfi ?? LAW i\qUIJRY AT FAR.HAM I -. WORKHOUSE. TV ?? uUIVOr. in The official inquiry by the Poor Law Board's ly Special Commissioneoi into the alleged gross mis- le management of the Farnharn Union workhouse was xi resumed on Taeaday morning. Dr. Powell ...

ANOTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST THE WORKHOUSE AUTHORITIES

... ANOTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST THE WORKHOUSE AUTHORITIES. I On Saturday last Mr Field, grocer, Market-place, came into the Police-court, before Mr. Alderman Thompson, in company with Mr. E. F. Collins and Mr. Bell, to make a statement in reference to the refusal ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1850
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1958 | Page: 6 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE NEW POOR LAW

... application was made to the workhouse master to know it any beef arid piurn pudding which might be sent tu the paupers, would be allowed ttens The answer was, that his orders were not to allotr it. Onl urgent entreaty the workhouse mtaster pelainied (whatI ...

THE ALLEGED WIFE POISONING AT KEIGHLEY

... THE ALLEGED WIFE POISONING AT KEIGHLEY. EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES. On Wednesday, John Sagar, master of the Keighley Workhouse, was again placed in the dock of the Keigh. ley Court-house, charged with the murder of his wife, Barbara Sagar, by administering ...

THE EXTRAORDINARY SUCIDE OF A SALVATIONIST IN HULL

... wrs committed to prison for 80 days. A REFRACTORY WORKHOUSE INMATE. At the Hull Police Court, on Friday, before Mr E. C. Twiss, stipendiary magistrate, Alfred Mumby, aged 16, an inmate of the Hull Workhouse, was charged with attempting to escape by means ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1883
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1432 | Page: 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

THE CHARGES AGAINST A RELIEVING OFFICER

... spoke to me.-Mr. Preston said that the man had f applied to him for relief, saying he had bken five weeks out of the Hull Workhouse. He made . enquiries, and learnt that le had only left that house on the previous Saturday. ,He was con- tinually going in ...

OFFICIAL INQUIRY INTO THE LATE CASE OF CHILD BIRTH IN FRONT OF THE WORKSHOUSE GATES

... Sculcoates Workhouse in 1847, 271; number of deaths in the house, 36. Average age of those who died in Sculcoates Workhouse, 40. Average age of those who died in Hull Workhouse, 44. You will thus per- ceive that the deaths in the Hull Workhouse are 25 per ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1850
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12736 | Page: 7 | Tags: Crime and Punishment