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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

... t, for the purpose of inducing the Paving Board to give employment to artisans out of 0 work, and to the inmates of the workhouse, as street le orderlies, instead of cleansing the streets by the pre- br sent expensive and unproductive method. Mr. T. I- ...

Metropolitan Intelligence

... the parish Burgeon. Witness 'went to Lambeth workhouse, where he saw a man who told him be was too late for an order that day, be must call the neit'rni'ning. Witness went the next morning to the workhouse and got an order for the -attendance of Mr Mitchell ...

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT WAKEFIELD

... lVakefield, yesterday afternoonl, on the body of Nanny Lee, a servaiit girl, tweuty-fivo years of age, who died at the Workhouse Hospital at Wakcfield this cay week, usider extraordinary circumstances. Tlhe deceased, who was an orphan, foruserly lived ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... Turner, Robert Jackson (40), an Irish tramp, was charged with refusing to do task work whilst an in- mate of the Leeds workhouse, and with using threatening language tow/ards the taskmaster. For the first offence he was sentenced to one month's imprisonment ...

Accidents, Offences, Inquests, &c

... (Saturday) two of the men belonging to the workhouse brought i -cot, which runs on two wheels, 'to convey the deceased into the house. The I men placed her inside, and closed the top, and pre. d ceeded to the workhouse, acid on opening the lid of the cot they ...

YORK ASSIZES

... the prisoner, but the clothes which the prisoner gave Mrs. Haigh on th1e morning that she left tile workhouse were proved by a nurse at the workhouse to be the same worn by the prisoner's child when sle left the house, and a piece of print, which was ...

POLICE COURT

... last, Benjamin Blake, a man of weak intellect, -who had been repeatedly charged with breaking out of the Sculcoates Union Workhouse, was brought up by Police-Constable No. 15, who said that at twelve o'clock the previous night, he saw prisoner knocking ...

THE ALLEGED DISTRESS IN HULL

... Guardians of the Hull Workhouse was held on Wednesday. The Governor (Ald. Fountain) in the chair, and Mr. John Symons in the vice-chair.-A letter was read from Mr. Faraell, Poor Law Inspec- tor, stating that he had inspected the workhouse, and foand it clean ...

THE WICKLOW PEERAGE CASE

... took her child on July 20; and that she (Mary Best) left thse Workhouse on July 29 without her child. Mlrs. Higgin- son's evidence was that Mrs. 1oward and another lady came to the Workhouse; thatMrs, Howard said she wanted to adopt a fair child; that ...

RELIEF OF THE UNEMPLOYED

... pointing out that any relaxation general rule respecting able-bodied male applicants requiring the acceptance of order for the workhouse, or the performance of an adequate task of work, would be most disastrous. What is needed is work which does not involve ...