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... TRAGEDY AT A WORKHOUSE. At Ely workhouse, on Sunday, a batcher, named Henry brigga, who was awaiting removal to a lunatic asylum, seized a red-hot poker from the fire and thrust it several times into his body. He then rushed at the attendants, who fled ...
... Giles's Workhouse. The prisoner admitted he was irritable, but thought he should not be compelled to leave his bed at four o'clock each morning to have it made. The magistrate asked whether consumptive patients were treated in this way. The workhouse doctor ...
... master a.nd matron of the Newport Workhouse. The three applicant* selected by the committee were Mr and Mrs Davies, master and matron of Chepstow Workhouse; Mr and Mrs Morgan, roaster and master of Tregaron Workhouse; and Mr and Mrs Maillard, of Kingham ...
... sustained serious injuries by falling down the embankment at Penarth Dock on Thursday evening succumbed at the Cardiff Union Workhouse, to-day. ...
... STRONG DRINK IN WORKHOUSES. At the weekly meeting of the Warrington Board oi Guardians, Mr. Xeild called attention to the consumption of intoxicating liquors by the inmates of the workhouse, lie learned tb&t in^ cost of drink ior the pa*t year was as ...
... ALLEGED FRAUD BY A WORKHOUSE MASTER. At the Old Bailey, on Tuesday, Charles Genery, workhouse master, and Edward Lauderdale, warehouseman, who pleaded guilty at the last sessions to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Mik-road Guardians by means of ...
... DEATH FROM EXPOSURE AT PONTYPRIDD. Thomas Rees, aged 72, died on Wednes day night at Pontypridd Workhouse in a rather sudden mannel. He was arrested the previous day for drunkenness and complained to the police of being unwell. Dr Howard Davies was called ...
... PAUPER CLERGYMAN'S WILL. I By. the will of the Rev. Howell Thomas, Anplican prifst, whose misfortunes drove him to Newport Workhouse for asylum, £ 160 will, it is announced, pas* into tho g;:ardiarKs' hands. ...
... tbe Army, but who, it is said, was unfortunate enoagh to lose all his money in speculation, hat just died in the West Ham Workhouse Infirmary. ...
... a frenzy, was smashing all the windows at the Gower Inn. The man turned out to be George Cooke, an inmate of the Penmaen Workhouse, who said be bad done what he did so that be might be arrested and taken to prison, where he would have proper attendance ...
... Heavy Fine. I The Gosport magistrates yesterday fined Edwin Bishop, wholesale grocer, £ 20 and costs for supplying the local Workhouse with butter adulterated with a large proportion of foreign fat. Admiral Field, M.P., presidihpf magistra.te, condemned the ...
... Corselas, has been visited at Kirkham Workhouse by a Catholic priest and a Spanish gentleman, and she persist* in lier story of privation during 16 days without food in an old boat. At St. Anne s on Friday the Workhouse master received a letter from a Liver- ...