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A WORKHOUSE TRAGEDY

... WORKHOUSE TRAGEDY. {from the Spectator.) rOh the 30th nit. Jane Smith. * rsdginghouse-keeper of Yarmouth-, was Norwich for feloniously slaying Martha Tsrn'pv, weak-minded girl her It was that the poor girl been treated with stl'ocious cruelty, beaten ...

Published: Tuesday 11 April 1865
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1810 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MURDER IN THE STOCKPORT WORKHOUSE

... MURDER IN THE STOCKPORT WORKHOUSE. On Friday evening last alarming affair occurred the lunatic ward of the Stockport Union Workhouse. In this ward was confined imbecile pauper, eighty years ef age, named Isaac Twigg, who lost his wife a few daya ago in ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE CASUAL WARD OF THE LONDON WORKHOUSE

... bringing up the casuals to the workhouse, and he would suggest that the guardians were quite satisfied that the police should have this power, because they knew more about these characters thau the officials of the workhouse did, and they were glad their ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1866
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MURDER IN THE STOCKPORT WORKHOUSE

... MURDER IN THE STOCKPORT WORKHOUSE. On Friday evening last an alarming affair occurred tbe lunatic ward the Stockport Union Workhouse. In this ward was confined imbecile pauper, eighty years age, named Isaac Twigg, who lost his wife few days ago that ...

Published: Monday 30 September 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE MANCHESTER WORKHOUSE INFIRM BY

... None of the officers of the workhouse were unkind or inattentive to me while I was the house. Mary Ann Murphy: I am a widow, aud live at 11, Canning-street, Great Ancoats-strcet I was an inmate No. 3 Ward in this workhouse in December last. I suffered ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1866
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4967 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

THE CHARGE OF INHUMANITY AT THE HACKNEY WORKHOUSE

... the workhouse. The manner in which the child was refused admission, as told by the matron of the workhouse, whd is the wife the master, gives the clue to the whole case. She stated that the child was brought in under the gateway of the workhouse, and ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1866
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 832 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE ST. PANCRAR WORKHOUSE AGAIN

... died- six of them inside the 3t. Pancras Workhouse, and two outside lt, whose deaths had nothing to do with the workhouse. The first workhouse case taken was that of the death of Jane Harvey, aged 33 years. D-, Ellis said that the deceased, who had suffered ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1869
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 868 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ALLEGED INHUMANITY IN A WORKHOUSE

... ALLEGED INHUMANITY IN A WORKHOUSE. On Tuesday, Dr. Markham, one of the inspectors of the Poor-law Board, attended the Bethnal-green Workhouse for the purpose of investigating a charge which had been Mr. Wakeling, the master of the against Johnston, the ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1868
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 538 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

THE RECENT SCANDALS AT THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE

... THE RECENT SCANDALS AT THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE. A special meeting the Liverpool Workhouse Committee was held yesterday, at which Mr. Harger, the vestry clerk, read the following latter had reoaived from the Poor-law Board :— i.'Poor-lav Board, Whitehall ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1867
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ALLEGED INHUMANITY IN A WORKHOUSE

... ALLEGED INHUMANITY IN WORKHOUSE. Oa Tuesday, Dr. Markham, one of the inspector* of the Poor-law Board, attended at the Bethnal-green Workhouse for the purpose of investigating a charge which had been Mr. Wakeling, the master of the house, against Johnston ...

Published: Thursday 24 December 1868
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 912 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CELEBRATION OF MASS IN A WORKHOUSE

... CELEBRATION OF MASS A WORKHOUSE. We extract the following from the Brittul Post of the 28th in at.:— Mebthtb Board Celebration or Mass in the Wobkhocs*—At the meeting ths board of guardians Saturday the chairman, G. T. Clark, Esq., read some oorrespondencs ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1868
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: 8 | Tags: none