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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 ...

TREATMENT OF INSANE PATIENTS IN PRIVATE PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUMS

... been in the workhouse otSt. Mary, Newington, to which I took him. A few days before I took him to the workhouse he became insane, and so violent I could do nothing with him. I saw him once or twice during the time he was in the workhouse, and I have nothing ...

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 WICKLOW PEERAGE CASE

... the workhouse there a custom prevailed of allowing pauper children born in the workllonse to be adopted, wvith the consent of their parents. On August the 16th, 1864, a pauper woman named Mary Best gave birl-h to a child in the Liverpool workhouse, About ...

ANOTHER POOR-LAW MURDER

... Money was refused, but the asylum of the workhouse was offered to her. That she rejected, because the acceptance of it would cause her to lose a little occasional work she had. She went a second time to the workhouse on the 2nd of November, and was again ...

SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A PAUPER, NEAR LEEDS

... id the Cal- ton Workhouse, near Leeds, on the 9th of Jan jary instant. The deceased lived with a married daughter at Chapoltown h up to the 19th of December last, 'vhen'at his own urgent re- questt he vas removed to Carlton Workhouse. He was at 1 ?? time ...

RELIEF IN URGENT CASES OF DESTITUTION

... urgent destitution, what theou? Al Mr. RvIcNDE.-Then the Workhouse Master would have whi taken her in.Go Aid. GAUNT.-Then it would, be right for the police to 1 LIk6 each a case to the workhouse? pro( Mr. CocisuaTe said that from a paragraph about the ...

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 ...

CRUEL TREATMENT OF THE POOR

... o'clock, he went to tako her to the workhouse; he found her in such a weak state as not to be able to carry her child. In going up owilbyBank, she fell weak and staggered; he had to support her from thereto the workhouse. She made no complaint to him. The ...

TREATMENT OF INSANE PATIENTS IN PRIVATE PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUMS

... been in the workhouse of St. Mary, Newington, to which I took him. A few days before I took him to the workhouse he became insane, and so violent I could do nothing with him. I saw him once or twice during the time he was in the workhouse, and I have ...