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Liverpool Echo – Saturday 30 June 1917 POISONED. MINER’S DEATH AFTER EATING MEAT PIE. An inquest was held at Blundellsands, before Mr. S. Brighouse, respecting the death of Peter Johnson (30), a miner, of Rainhill, who succumbed to ptomaine poisoning. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased, his wife, and two children came to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Market Rasen Weekly Mail – Saturday 06 March 1875 LINCOLNSHIRE LENT ASSIZES. The Commission for holding these Assizes will be opened on Thursday, the 11th instant. The following is a calendar of the prisoners awaiting their trial: William Kirkby, 18, farm servant, for committing an unnatural offence, at Appleby, on the 23rd July, 1874. Elizabeth […]
