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Hucknall Morning Star and Advertiser – Friday 22 August 1890 DEATH FROM DRINKING SPIRITS. Last Thursday night, the police at Whaplode, Lincolnshire, were sent for to arrest an Irish harvestman named Mace, aged about 35, for stealing spirits. The constable found the man lying in a corn field apparently under the influence of drink. He […]
Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette – Tuesday, 26 August 1913 THE INQUEST. The inquest was held at Winscott Farm, the home of the deceased, yesterday (Monday) afternoon, by the Deputy Coroner for the Aylesbury district (Mr. Stanley E. Wilkins). Mr. W. F. Herbert was foreman of the jury. Evidence of identification was given by […]
ALARMING EPIDEMIC NEAR BOLTON. SALE OF POISONOUS MILK. An epidemic of a very serious character has broken out in the village of Egley, situate about two and a half miles from Bolton. The disease, which bears some resemblance to the foot-and-mouth complaint in cattle, was first noticed ten days or a fortnight ago. A number […]
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette – Tuesday 06 September 1887 DESTRUCTION OF THE EXETER THEATRE ENORMOUS LOSS OF LIFE THE DEAD LAID OUT IN ROWS AGONISING SCENES Last night, Exeter’s new Theatre Royal was destroyed by fire. Like its immediate predecessor, it succumbed to flames, but the circumstances of this destruction were far more tragic than […]
Morning Chronicle – Saturday 08 January 1859 TWO MEN POISONED BY NITROUS ACID GAS. It rarely happens that we have to record an occurrence of so fatal a character, in connection with the manufactures of the South West, as that which took place at Torpoint Sulphuric Manure works, on Monday, and by which two men […]
Newcastle Chronicle – Saturday 16 November 1889 ALARMING FOOD POISONING IN CARLISLE DEATH OF A GILSLAND FARMER Alarming cases of food poisoning have occurred in the Carlisle district, and one case—that of Mr. Irving, farmer, of Long Top, Gilsland—has proved fatal. Mr. Slack, tolls collector, of Carlisle, on Saturday, the 2nd inst., and Mr. Irving […]
Portsmouth Evening News – Monday 15 June 1903 CORONER’S COURT. This afternoon Mr. T. A. Bramston, Borough Coroner, held three inquests at the Town Hall, Landport. A PAINFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. The first inquiry related to the death of Mrs. Sarah White, wife of Mr. John White, landlord of the “Barleycorn” beer-house, Conway-street, Landport. The husband, an Army […]
