Ross Gazette 7th May 1914 - Page 7
Ross Gazette 7th May 1914 - Page 7
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| Date | 07/05/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 7th May 1914 |
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NEW - HUDSON LADIES ' MODEL . Prices from £ 5 198. 6d . PASSEY & HALL , CYCLE ENGINEERS , Limited , CENTRAL CYCLE WORKS , ROSS . Agents in Boss and Distriot for the popular NEW HUDSON CYCLES . For many years Official Repairers to the O.T.0 . NEW - HUDSON GENT.'S MODEL . PRICES from £ 5 19s . 6d . Child's Strange Death . ADJOURNED INQUEST AND VERDICT . After a very careful and close inquiry , the mystery surrounding the birth and death of the illegitimate child of Miss Hilda Mary Wood , which died in the Workhouse Infir- mary when only seven days old , has been sifted , the adjourned inquiry being held in the Committee Koom , Union Offices , Ross , on Wednesday evening last . The evidence taken at this second inquiry revealed that there was nothing to show how the wounds upon the child's jaw , chin , and mouth were inflicted , and that the jury returned the only verdict that was really open to them . The adjourned inquiry was held by the Deputy - Coroner ( Mr. W. T. Carless ) and the following jury : Messrs . G. Williams , H. Drew , J. Drew , A. Carter , C. Harris , T. T. Clift , C. E. Gray , Edward London , C. J. Wright , A. Brown , A. Dean , H. Whieldon , and F. Bilbey . " Mr. J. B. Evans , solicitor , Ross , watched the proceedings on behalf of Hilda Mary Wood , and there was also present Superin- tendent Broad ( Ross ) , Mr. R. Pashley , and Mr. J. Fred . Arnold ( Clerk to the Ross Board of Guardians ) . evidence . THE ROSS GAZETTE THURSDAY , MAY 7. 1914 . Ross Board of Quardians . Ross Boy's Serious Offence . THE VALUERS RETURN CRITICISED . SENT TO A REFORMATORY FOR HOUSA MR . WEBB'S APPOINTMENTS . vice - chair . OUT - RELIEF . The Relieving Officers reported that they had relieved 240 poor persons during the fortnight at a cost of £ 53 15s . 2d . , and that with non - resident relief amounted to £ 55 1s . 8d . BREAKING . THE EVIDENCE . Ross Youths Sent to an Industrial School . SERIOUS CHARGE ADMITTED . STOLEN MONEY BURIED IN THE CHURCHYARD . Oddfellows Conference at Hereford . THE PANEL DOCTORS . An Oddfellows conference , representing 100,000 members of the Manchester Unity in the Midlands , was held at Hereford on Saturday , under the presidency of Bro . C. J. Clay Prov . C.S. , Stafford . Mr. C. B. Greenland ( Mayor ) gave the delegates an official welcome to the city , and after the conference entertained the ' oom- pany . Stafford was chosen by 25 votes to 17 as the place for holding next year's conference , and Bro . Clay ( Stafford ) was elected_presi- dent for the year , with Bro . W. Hodges ( Bromsgrove ) , as vice - president . Various views were expressed as to whether Manchester or London was the most suitable place for the central offices of the Unity . Costumes that Fit , that are New , that will Please . The Largest Stook in the County , THERE IS NO BETTER VALUE . WAKEFIELD KNIGHT , HEREFORD . Death of Rev. Silvester Horne , M.P. At a special Children's Court , held at THE HOUSE COMMITTEE'S REPORT . Ross Town Hall on Friday morning - before Capt . R. H. Verschoyle ( Chairman ) , Mr. T. Matthews , Mr. J. E. 8. Hewett , and Mr. H. T Blake Thomas Wheeler , aged 15 , of A very serious case against two Ross boys The fortnightly meeting of this authority Brampton - street , Ross , was brought up in was heard at a Special Children's Court on was held at Union Offices , Ross , on Thurs- custody charged with feloniously and wilfully Friday morning last , before Capt . R. H. day last , when Mr. W. B. Pilkington ( Chair - breaking into and entering the business Verschoyle ( Chairman ) , Mr. T. Matthews , man ) presided , with Mr. F. Cooper in the premises of Mr. Henry Gee Bussell , book- Mr. J. E. S. Hewett , and . Mr. H. T. Blake , Others present were Mrs. Mac- coller and stationer , Broad - street , Ross , and when George Henry Watson and George lean , Mrs. Protheroe , Capt . T. Raymond stealing therefrom 8s . 11d . on Sunday night , Davies , both aged eleven years , were sum- moned for entering the house of John Charles Symons , Mr. F. B. Collins , Mr. F. W. Her- October 5th . bert , Mr. J. T. Stone , Mr. J. G. Protheroe , When this case came up for hearing in Jarvis , a billposter , of Kyrle - street , Ross , Mr. H. Hone , Mr. J. W. Robinson , Mr. J. October last , the other defendant Arthur and feloniously stealing and carrying away Parr , Mr. H. T. Blake , Mr. A. Herbert , Mr. Gibbons , concerned in the case , only appear - 1 4s . 6d . , in money , the property of Mr. A. Matthews , Mr. E. Morgan , Mr. A. W. ed , it being stated by the police that Wheeler Jarvis , on April 22nd . Foster , Mr. M. K. M. Power , Mr. E. W. had absconded . The case against Gibbons Mr. John Charles Jarvis , billposter , Kyrle Prevost , Mr. F. Gibson Fry , Mr. H. H. was decided , and a warrant was issued for street , Ross , deposed that on April 22nd , he The vice - president moved a resolution in BY - ELECTION AT IPSWICH Child , Mr. D. A. Meredith , Mr. J. Day , Mr. the arrest of Wheeler . This was done on left his house about 4.45 p.m. The house J. Murdoch , Mr. A. G. Evans , Mr. H. Lick- Wednesday last , at Old Tredegar , where was properly fastened up , as nobody was left favour of Manchester , for financial and ad- A Reuter's telegram from Ottawa an- fold , Mr. W. Lloyd , Mr. T. A. Lock , Mr. Wheeler had been working underground since in it at the time . When he returned about ministrative reasons , and others urged that nounces the death of the Rev. Silvester 7.30 p.m. , he did not notice anything wrong , it would be to the interests of the Order to Horne , M.P. , on board the steamship Coro- T. Preece , Mr. R. Pashley , Mr. O. Freer , he left home , but on the following day his wife told him have the offices in London rather than in a nia , between Niagara and Toronto , on with Mr. J. Fred . Arnold ( Clerk ) , Mr. E. W. what she had discovered , and he found some back street in Manchester , and the officials Saturday night . Gent and Mr. A. H. Webb ( Relieving Off- cars ) , and Mr. H. L. P. Battersea ( Master ) . Mr. Henry Gee Bussell , stationer , Broad- money had been taken from a cash box , would be able to keep in closer touch with Mr. Horne was Liberal Member of Parlia- street , Ross , deposed that he was at his shop which was in a chest of drawers upstairs , the legislators . Other speakers argued that they ment for Ipswich , and one of the most on October 4th , and before leaving it at drawers being locked , but not the box . The could have no influence on legislation except eminent leaders of British Nonconformity . night , he saw that the premises were all chest of drawers had been unlocked by a key , by direct representation in the House of For several years he filled the chair of the safely locked up . On the morning of the which had been obtained from somewhere . Commons . Congregational Union . Early last month , ac- By 48 votes to 12 the meeting decided in companied by Mrs. Horne , he sailed for the 6th October , his attention was called to some An entrance into the house had been effected portion of the shop , and also to the window through the cellar , the door of which was favour of Manchester . United States , where he delivered lectures on The position of the lodges in regard to in the back room , which he could see had left just open . Usually he locked the door been forced open , presumably by the hatchet as the top of the cellar , which leads into the medical service under the National Insurance preaching at Yale University , as president of the Brotherhood movement . He was now Act called forth a long debate . produced , which was found on the windowsill , kitchen , but on this occasion he did not do Several visiting Canada . Shortly before the evening The fastening on the window had been som what he heard be from the cash box . delegates complained that there was a good service at Whitfields on Sunday being From he went and saw the deal of malingering , which threatened to Rev. W. Charter Piggott , who succeeded Mr. wrenched was open through which the boys must have effected boy Watson , and told him that he had lost ruin some of the lodges . Bro . Day ( Leices- Horne as superintendent , received news that an entrance . The two inside doors had also some money . After a time the lad owned up ter ) contended that doctors were not care Mr. Horne had had a dangerous heart attack . been forced , and the cane produced was to taking two shillings and sixpence , a pos- less in issuing certificates , and Bro . Castle Charles Silvester Horne was born in 1865 found on the floor , as were several other tal order for two shillings and sixpence . ( Worcester ) mentioned a case of a man who at the village of Cuckfield , on the edge of He then missed money from two The postal order . torn up , was down a went to the panel doctor and told him he the Sussex Downs . His father was Congre things . tills , one of which was locked and the other cellar grating . He afterwards saw Davies felt fit for work . " Oh , no , " replied the gational minister of the Cuckfield Chapel , nnlocked , the latter having only a very little with Watson also present . Davies said he doctor , " you want more Lloyd George ; you but his health gave way , and he removed to money in it . The locked one had been forced stood outside and watched while Watson went can do him for another week . " Another Newport in Shropshire , where he became open , and several shillings were taken from inside . Watson heard this conversation , but delegate thought doctors were afraid to be editor of a weekly newspaper . After Mr. it . made no answer Davies ' elder brother had too stringent about malingering because they Silvester Horne had graduated at Glasgow Mrs. Wheeler , when asked if she had any got the toy pistols and other articles locked thought they would lose patients from their University he returned to England and spent questions to ask , said that she had not , but up , and the lads told him that these things panel . It was suggested , as a protection to three years at Mansfield College before he were bought out of the money they had the lodges , that independent medical referees hoped Mr. Bussell would not press the was called to his first charge at Kensington . taken , which they shared between them . should be appointed in big centres like Bir- One writer has stated that " Dr. Dale , of Miss Dorothy Chapman , an assistant for There were three toy pistols , an electric visitors should be paid . Bro . Baynham said field , were to him what Bishops Paget and 4th , she fastened up the window that had reel and line . He had recovered 58. 10 d . the battle with doctors was not yet over , Gore were to the Rev. R. J. Campbell . " An been forced , and on the Monday morning she The 10d . was for a pistol which Watson and the remedy for the present unsatisfactory advanced Liberal in politics , a keen land and found that it had been burst open , as de- had taken back to Mr. Dunn , two and six - state of things lay in the restoration to the temperance reformer , Mr. Horne acquired scribed by Mr. Bussell . She was the second pence and eighteen - pence which they had friendly societies of the administration of some notoriety by remaining , from the ont- buried in a grave in the churchyard . Wat- the medical benefits . Several speakers break of the South African war until its person to enter the room . son pointed out the grave in which the thought the lodges should get into closer close , an unconpromising pro Boer . money had been buried . He ( witness ) was touch with the doctors , asking them to give there at the time the money was taken from greater attention to a matter so vital to the grave . The fishing rod , reel , and line friendly societies . No resolution was come to . Watson had hidden down at Wilton , and that was recovered . He took the two boys down to the Police Station , where they both owned up to the theft . FINANCE REPORT . Mr. COOPER presented the report of the Finance Committee , which showed a balance at the bank of £ 622 2s . 9d . , less unpresented cheques of £ 7 14s . 2d .. leaving £ 614 8s . 7d . Cheques were required that morning for £ 185 0s . 4d . , and when those were paid there would be a credit balance of £ 479 88. 8d . He proposed the adoption of the report . Mr. CHILD seconded , and it was carried . The Master's returns charge . she had only been in his employ three days . house that morning , as against 94 for the Mr. Bussell , said that on the night of Oct. flash lamp , a belt , a knife , a fishing rod and mingham and Manchester , and that the sick Birmingham , and Dr. Fairbairn , of Mans- wish her panel doctor to be sent for , but pre- ferred seeing him in Ross . Witness asked if she was well enough to get up , and was in- formed that she was about to dress . The position , said witness , was a peculiar one , as He told Thrower that the girl must not travel alone to Ross , and that on reaching the station they must go by the ' bus direct either to the dispensary or to the girl's mother's home . He then saw his gardener , and sent him to the village for a girl to take Wood to Ross , or to take the other girl's He then place , while she went to Ross . left home , and did not return until after the doctor arrived . " This would never have happened except for the Insurance Act . " concluded Mr. Pashley , " for I should have at once wired for my own family doctor . " The Deputy Coroner , again addressing the jury , said they had heard all the evidence , and he thought they would agree with him that it was not , perhaps , as full as they could have hoped or wished . There was not much doubt that the birth of the child came as a surprise to everybody , for no preparations were made of any sort or description . The doctor had told them that the child was practically full time , and that its organs were healthy , and his evidence showed also that the child died partly from hemorrhag caused by wounds on the jaw , and chin , and mouth , and partly from hemorrhage caused by inattention at birth . Unfortunately they had no evidence whatever as to the manner in which the wounds on the face were caus- ed ; all the doctor could tell them was that wounds . The was was that That He then went Mrs. Watson , who was looking very ill , said her boy was eleven years of age last Wales and could not attend . January . His father was working down in Mrs. Davies said her boy was eleven years of age last November . She knew nothing at all about this offence . Gloucester Board of Finance . SUCCESSFUL FIRST YEAR'S WORK . The first annual report of the Gloucester Diocesan Board of Finance is prefaced by a foreword of the Bishop of the Diocese ( Dr. Supt . Broad deposed that on Friday , Jarvis came to the Police Station with these splendid year's work . The board had called April 24th , just after five o'clock , Mr. E. C. S. Gibson ) , who says it is a record of a two lads . He said the boys had taken some forth a greater spirit of generosity towards diocesan objects than had ever been evoked money from his house , and that he had re- covered three toy pistols and other articles , before . Nevertheless , the really oritical time which they had bought with the money which was before them , as in some branches of the Some of the money they work there was bound to be a steady had also buried in the churchyard . He increase of expenditure , and the board ( witness ) asked Davies if it were true that ought also to extend the range of its " On Wednesday , should be in a position to make grants for he had taken this , and the boy made this operations . It was most desirable that it April 22nd , about 6.15 p.m. I went to John assistant curates generally , and not to con- voluntary statement : We were both to church and district to be served , and also to George Henry Watson . Watson went inside the house . I net income of less than £ 200 a year . In called to witness and told him that I order to enforce the need of additional funds would not wait any longer . Watson then the Bishop mentions that the estimates made came out and said , ' Alright . then . " We by the various committees of their require- both went up the entry , and Watson said : ments for the present year exceed by about of the board . To maintain the work already Come on back , you keep quiet , and I will £ 1,000 the estimated income at the disposal go in there . " undertaken and to keep up the scale of grants will need very great efforts . It was as a Congregational minister , how- ever , that Mr. Horne gained his popularity . All along he was conspicuously successful as a preacher . At Oxford he became the close friend and associate of Mr. Campbell , and it was while he was still in his novitiate at Mansfield College that he was called to the pastorate of Kensington Congregational Church . Some years later he left for the democratic precints of Tottenham Court Road , where he became superintendent of Whitfield's Tabernacle , which he speedily transformed from a decaying institution to one of the most successful centres of the Congregational Church . He retired from medication in January last , following medical advice . Mr. Horne preached his first sermon at the age of sixteen in a little chapel not far from Newport . He strongly supported the Liberal Party from the beginning of the education controversy , and advised ministers to preach against the measure which aroused such hit- In 1892 Mr. Horne married the eldest ter opposition in the Nonconformist churches . daughter of Sir H. Cozens Hardy , Master of the Rolls . By the death of the Rev. Silvester Horne , a Parliamentary vacancy is created in Ips- wich . At the General Election of January , 1910 , Mr. Horne entered Parliament in the Liberal interest as one of two members for Ipswich . He was returned again in the fol- lowing December , when the Liberal majority HOUSE COMMITTEE , & c . The CLERK read the report of the newly constituted House Committee , which showed that Colonel Middleton had been appointed chairman for the year , with Mr. H. H. Child as vice - chairman . showed that there were 85 inmates in the corresponding period last year . The casuals relieved during the fortnight totalled 88 , as against 118 last year , or a decrease of 30 . The committee had been round the house and found everything very satisfactory . The Clerk reported that the alteration in the Sergt . Titcombe deposed that on Monday morning , October 6th last , he was called to House Committee of meeting on alternate . Thursdays to Board day would not work Mr. Bussell's shop in Broad - street , and ex- amined the premises . He found the catch on properly , and that a smaller committee would be better ( hear , hear ) , and recommended that the window had been broken off , and the the Board should revert back to the old hatchet was on the windowsill outside . He system and that they should meet on Board then found the first inside door had been day mornings at 9.30 . It was thought , too , forced , the socket having , been bent back by that it would not be to the best interests of the hatchet , and the second had been opened the Board that the House Committee should by pushing the door key out with the cane consist of the whole Board , and it was pro- door , and the key dragged out in that way . posed to recommend that that be also altered . produced , which was then put under the The main reason for altering the day again The ' till had evidently been forced by the was that a number of matters would be little bicycle spanner , which he produced , as brought up between the last meeting of the the marks on the till exactly corresponded House Committee and the ordinary meeting with those of the spanner . of the Board , and if those terms were not attended to it would mean that they would each one or the boy Gibbons , who in of Wheeler , whom he found at his not be dealt with for three weeks . would be a great difficulty in the administra- made this statement : " On Sunday evening tive work . Therefore the Thursdays previous top of Brampton - street . at six o'clock , I met Thomas Wheeler at the We went along to Board days would not be workable . Mr. PREECE proposed and Mr. BLAKE Bellamy's lane and got over the boards at the they had taken . back garden . We found a seconded that a smaller House Committee of Mr. Busindowsill . Wheeler be formed , and that such committee meet on wrenched the window open with the axe , and Board day mornings at 9.30 . This was put to the vote and carried , the I went in first . Tom followed me in . Wheeler The Deputy - Coroner said the inquiry had the cuts were clean , and could not have been committee appointed including the Chair- the lock of the door , which leads into the a cane , and tried to push the key out of inflicted by a blunt instrument , and were man , Vice - Chairman , Colonel Middleton , been adjourned in order to give the mother probably done by some sharp - edged article . Captain T. Raymond Symons , Mr. E. W middle shop , and as he could not push the Charles Jarvis ' house in Kyrle - street with fine them to cases where there is a mission ( Hilda Mary Wood ) an opportunity to give The corkscrew - the only metal instrument in Prevost , Mr. H. T. Blake , Mrs. Maclean , with the axe . Wheeler then got the cane gether . I sat on the wall and watched while increase the stipends of all incumbents with a key out of the lock he burst the door open Mr. Pashley said that before the evidence the room - could not have inflicted such Mrs. Protheroe , Mr. H. H. Child . Mr. A. W. again , and pushed the key out of the second look , and the key fell on the floor , and the key was dragged under the door , and we got into the front shop . Wheeler went round the back of the counter and burst open We came down , and . I sat one of the tills with a spanner , which I lent to him , as I had the spanner in my on the wall to watch , and Watson went into pocket before we went to the shop . Wheeler the house through the cellar . When he pushed the till in again . We then went to report of the evidence which was given be- be a little faulty as to what happened on older and more experienced nurse , and that another till in the front shop , which was came back he showed me two half - sovereigns , The statement of accounts shows that the Frost and the Crops . unlocked . We had about sixpence each out and we afterwards went up the town and income of the board from all sources in 1918 Mr. Pashley : But it is absolutely contrary It was not for him to tell them what their per annum , and that the age should not be tween us , and it was exactly 4s . each . I and paid 51d . each , also one flashlight 1s . average of £ 4,500 for the years 1911 and of that . We divided the other money be - bought two pistols from Mr. Dunn's shop amounted to £ 6,616 . This compared with an SERIOUS DAMAGE IN EVESHAM VALE . The severe frost in the early hours of changed mine into silver this morning while We then went to Bradley's and bought one 1912 , or an increase of nearly Davies told him that they had in first year of the board . The subscriptions Saturday morning did widespread damage , on my paper round , and I have hid it up at spent the money , about 7s . 2d . altogether . and donations were £ 3,675 , as against about and in the Vale of Evesham growers have o'clock when we got into the shop . " Wheeler Watson also made a voluntary statement in £ 2,200 , or an increase of about 70 per cent . , from six to nine degrees in different places suffered seriously . The frost , which varied The CLERK read a letter from the Dis- said : " Yes , that is right . I have got the which he admitted getting into the house proving that the idea of pooling subscrip- and was most severe from two to five o'clock , money up at home . " The money was down and taking the money . He also said that on tions had met with approval . As in past did great havoc to the tender ground crops . in the cellar in a handkerchief . Afterwards the Monday previous he took a two shilling years the Lord Bishop had given a sub- postal order and a sixpence . They spent all scription of £ 550 . The average amount con- the money except 6s . which Watson gave to tributed to the old societies by the parishes Mr. Jarvis . Watson said he hid 2s . 6d . for 1911 and 1912 was £ 1,240 . The mini- in the churchyard , and that Davies also put mum quota for which the board asked in 1913 was £ 1,300 , and the sum actually re- Continuing , ceived was £ 1,620 , and exceeded the quota by have suffered very severely , especially in 24 per cent . The board had decided not to appear to have been swept . Before Saturday some of the low - lying places , where plums increase the minimum quota for 1914 , but morning there was a remarkably fine promise relied on the generosity of the parishes in of fruit of all kinds , and the trees were minimum by an even larger percentage than sunny April . There are some unfortunate in 1913. Some £ 3,000 was expended by the growers now who appear to have very little Maintenance Committee . Excluding the ex- penses connected with the diocesan mission , been unwelcome to growers , but unfortunate- Thinning by frost would not have about £ 2,200 was paid in grants , of which ly the thinning has not been impartially done . £ 200 went to mission curates , £ 1,824 to- wards increasing the income of the poorer was disheartening to many growers to go to and some men's crops have been swept , It livings in the diocese , and £ 200 for per- their grounds on Saturday , and find prac- patronage with a population of over 200 had many cases 90 per cent . of the plums have manent endowment . All livings in public tically all the plums black on the trees . In been made up to £ 200 for the year 1913 , been lost , while in some favourable situa- whilst those with a population between 100 tions such as Greenhill , Evesham , little entailed grants to some 50 livings . and 200 had been made up to £ 140 . This damage has been done . The apple trees work of the other committees is explained , difficult yet to estimate the extent of the were in bloom and suffered severely . but it is and it is stated that as the result of the damage . The loss to strawberry growers will be great . Almost everywhere the first bloom , which always produced the finest strawberries , has been killed . able amount of asparagus was also frost- bitten , and bush fruits have suffered con- A consider siderably . was commenced , he would like to draw to the Coroner's notice the Press report of the first proceedings . He produced a cutting , and said he had underlined the portions which he thought needed comment . The Deputy - Coroner said it was not , of course , for him to interfere with the Press if they thought they were taking a correct fore the inquest . to the evidence given at the inquest . The Deputy - Coroner : I might , say there is something a little different , but the bulk of it is absolutely correct . You cannot take exception to all this which is underlined . It seems to me that it is a remarkably accurate report , with the exception of about two minor details . The first witness called was Hilda Mary Wood , the mother of the child , who deposed that ordinarily she resided at 48 , Edde - Cross- street , Ross . She was a single woman , and went into the situation at Kerne Lodge as temporary cook on April 4th . She was only engaged for a fortnight . When engaged , heard which only entrance they had Foster , Mr. C. H. Hitchings , Mr. Freer , Mr. Bull , Mr. Preece , Mr. Murdoch , Mr. F. J. as to whether or not the girl asked for a Constable Curtis , and Mr. J. G. Protheroe .. doctor . The girl herself stated that at the RESIGNATION OF ASSISTANT NURSE . last moment she asked for a doctor , while The CLERK read a letter from the assis Ruby Thrower gave evidence to the contrary ; tant nurse in the infirmary , tendering her They , however , could imagine that in view of resignation , and asking for a testimonial , as the unusual excitement that must have pre- she was now going in for private work . vailed , the memory of both witnesses might The Board decided to advertise for an the various visits up and down the stairs . the salary should he £ 25 with £ 8 for uniform verdict was to be , but at the present time he could not see that they had any evidence to say that the wounds were caused by the mother . The only evidence before them was that the child died from hemorrhage birth . from the wounds and from inattention at the house P - The Deputy Coroner : Nothing A Juror : Has anything else been found in at all . The police searched both in the room and outside the house , and we have it at the last inquiry that the corksorew was the only article found . A Juror : Mr. Pashley's evidence absolutely substantiates Hilda Wood's evidence that she The Deputy Coroner : In the excitement , Ruby Thrower might easily have forgotten a little matter like that . she knew her condition , but did not tell any - did at the last moment ask for a doctor . one , not even her own mother , because she was afraid or frightened to do so . Her con- finement came before she expected it . On the night of April 7th , she slept in the same room as Ruby Thrower , but she was too ill to go to bed . Although she got worse , she refused to tell anyone the cause . When asked if a doctor should be sent for , she re- plied that she thought she might get better , but she did ask for a doctor shortly before the child was born . The child was born on the 8th . She accounted for the cuts on the child's face by reason of it having fallen tention they had given to the case . against the chair . Miss Ruby Thrower , a servant at Kerne Lodge , was next called on the question of the fetching of a doctor . The Deputy Coroner : You have heard the last witness say that she asked you to fetch a doctor at the last minute ? Witness : She repeatedly said she did not want one . The jury considered their verdict in private , and after a few minutes delibera- tion ,, they found that this child , " Mary Wood , owing to injuries and hemorrhage arising from want of attention at birth , and from no other cause known to the jury , did die . " The Coroner thanked the jury for the at- HEREFORDSHIRE MAIN ROADS . PLACES UNDER REPAIR . It has occurred to Mr. G. H. Jack , the County Surveyor , that it would be of general and said that at the request of the Coroner interest , especially to motorists , if he sup- Dr. A. J. Campbell was the next witness , below 25 years . It was also agreed to give the present assistant nurse a testimonial . DISTRICT VALUER'S REPORT . trict Government Valuer , in which it stated not include the large garden in front of the that the area upon which he had based his valuation was 2 acres 29 poles , which did Workhouse . Mr. PREECE : That makes a considerable difference . The CLERK , continuing , said the site value of that 2 acres and 29 poles was re- turned at £ 1,035 , and the buildings were valued at £ 13,708 . much . The CHAIRMAN : You can appeal . Mr. COOPER thought if the Clerk re- ferred the matter to the land Surveyor , that would be put right . Mr. COLLINS : But you must appeal within 60 days . Mr. BLAKE : What is the value of the garden in front ? home in the garden . It was about nine collar . " 28. 6d . in the same place . the . articles on the table . " per cent . was increased from 268 to 344 . Almost everywhere potatoes which Were showing and runner and dwarf beans were cut down , and a large acreage of peas was laid flat . Although the fruit trees were dry and well protected with the leaf , they left . a summons was issued against Wheeler , but he failed to appear , and a warrant was isuued for his arrest . The boy was arrested on April 29th at Old Tredegar . When charged Wheeler pleaded guilty . fended Mrs. Wheeler then came forward and ask - Watson stated that he put fourpence in the ed the Magistrates to deal as lightly as they slot at Mr. Soles ' , and spent the other on could for her sake . She then handed in a In reply to the Bench , Supt . Broad said Mr. PREECE said that would be at the gave Wheeler an excellent character . She that according to Watson he must have got recognition of diocesan needs to exceed the healthy and growing well after the warm and letter from the boy's present employer , who rate of nearly £ 500 per acre , which was too did hope they would not send the boy away . into the house twice , once on the Monday His father was not present , and she had six and once on the Wednesday . When charged both boys pleaded guilty , little children , and the boy was just begin- and their parents said they preferred the ning to get a bit of a help to her . Mr. J. Strange then came forward , and case being decided that day . In reply to further questions from the said that while Wheeler worked with him , Bench , Supt . Broad said a little time ago he found him an absolutely honest lad , and these two boys broke into the Wesleyan was not in his employ when he broke into took , as no charge was taken out against an exceptionally good boy to work . Wheeler Chapel , but he could not say what they this shop in May , 1918 , and he did not know of that offence at the time . The Chairman , addressing the boys , said it Mr. Bussell said he did not wish to press the charge , and if he might suggest that the the Court would be that they would both be was a very serious charge . The sentence of hoy could be placed under proper supervis- sent to an industrial school as soon as room ion , that would meet the case . After the Magistrates had talked the could be found for them . In the meantime matter over between themselves , the Chair- they would be remanded to the workhouse man said the fact of Wheeler being punished until they could be sent to this school , where they would be kept until they became four- in May of last year for a similar offence had teen years of age . The Bench hoped that no effect , and neither did it seem to be would make better boys of them in the warning to him , although the Magistrates hoped it would . In October , the boy goes future . and takes another boy with him , and breaks into this same shop , and , when summoned , falled to come up and take his chance with his companion , but went away , and now had to be brought there on warrant . The Magistrates considered this very serious The CLERK : We have not got that . Mr. PREECE said he considered the pro- per course for that Board to adopt was for them to decide upon what they considered a fair valuation , and that the Clerk should then be directed to write to the land Sur- veyor and state what valuation the Board considered to be a fair one . That would be the course of procedure to adopt . The CHAIRMAN : That , of course , would be the preliminary course to an appeal . Mr. PREECE : I think £ 800 per nore Mr. COOPER : That is what we paid for On the proposition of Mr. PREECE , he had made a post mortem examination up- plied for publication information as to the organs perfectly healthy . There was no in- progress in Herefordshire . Readers should jury either on the brain or skull . note that the dates given for completion re- the Garden in the front , I believe , on the child , and he then found all the places where road reconstruction work is in would be a very fair valuation . chair ? said that was all the evidence he proposed of bringing in the verdict as to the cause of this child's death . They had no evidence as to ment ? The Coroner said the evidence they had had was that the girl did not require a doctor at all , while the mother's own evi- case , but they were very loth to send a boy them . WHAT DYSPEPTIOS SHOULD KNOW . The reeds work there is a balance of £ 171 to the credit of the board . The various committees had presented their estimates of necessary expenditure for 1914 , and the total amount required is £ 7,500 . At a naval Court - martial at Chatham , Arti- foer Engineer Ernest Taylor , of the Lord Nelson , charged with having been drunk on board , was ordered to forfeit six months ' seniority and dismissed his ship . them on modern lines to cope with the in- MR . WEBB'S NEW APPOINTMENTS . for this offence would therefore be that an alarming extent . The practice is wrong , arrested on Saturday on the Brighton front spoiled , and replanting will probably be RECONSTRUCTIONS . Act Thieves broke into the church of the poor - box . necessary to obtain a satisfactory crop . The setting condition . All varieties of stone fruit have promise of producing very satisfactory crops . The weather being dry was also much in favour of the fruit withstanding the frost . The apples are just in full bloom , and will be checked in their progress and somewhat damaged . The early vegetable crops sustained a severe check by the keen frost of Saturday monring in the districts of Astwood Bank The Deputy Coroner : You have heard the fer to the completion of rough foundation along the ridgeway bordering the counties of mother's suggestion . In your opinion could such injuries have been caused by a fall from work ; surface tarring work will be in pro- seconded by Mr. MURDOOH , the Clerk was Warwickshire and Worcestershire , and in the low - lying districts of Feckenham and Som- the height of two or three feet on to the grass in most of the places during the sum- Instructed to write to the District Valuer , PHYSICIAN'S TIMELY ADVICE . mer . It will be of interest to the inhabi- and state that the Board considered the bourne . The hot sun , of the early part of Dr. Campbell : They certainly could not tants of the county to know that this work valuation too high , and that a fair amount like him to prison , but as this was the Mies Reed , or Scott , a suffragette , who was last week hastened rapid growth of potatoes , The fact that few dyspeptics really under last year sentenced , to nine months in connec- peas , beans , etc. , in the gardens and allot- have been caused by a fall on to the edge of 22 miles of main roads , i.e. , reconstructing is part of a large scheme for dealing with per acre would be 2800 . second offence of this kind , they were bound stand the cause of their trouble is probably tion with a case of arson at Edinburgh , but ments , which were in a very forward con- the chair . I cannot find any part of the to do something . The sentence of the Court the reason why drugs are still used to such was released owing to in - health , chair that would have caused the injuries creased weight and speed of modern traffic . was re- dition , but have been almost completely which I found on the child . The CLERK read a letter from the Local Wheeler would have to be sent to a reforma- however , and is strongly condemned by many under the " Cat and Mouse The Deputy Coroner , addressing the jury , be close upon £ 40,000 ; this money is raised ment of Mr. A. H. Webb , the Relieving After 18 months , if he conducted himself The total cost of the whole of the work will Government Board sanctioning the appoint - tory until he reached the age of 19 years . Physicians . The presence of excess acid in the stomach call before them . They had the responsibility partly by free grants from the Road Board , Officer , as assistant overseer for the parish properly , he might be let out . He would is the cause of practically all forms of digos - algin's , near Driffeld , and stole the contents damage to the res was a protection against and partly by loans free of interest from the of Bridstow , provided he agreed to give up now have to go to the reformatory , where tive trouble , and this can be neutralised and same source . The annual contribution of that office at the request of either the Local he would be kept under proper discipline , rendered harmless by the occasional use of Colonel T. F. Fremantle has given a cup the County Council does not exceed what Government Board or the Board of Guard- and they hoped it would make a better boy ordinary bisurated magnesia a product to the Boy Scouts in Buckinghamshire for would have been spent in any case in main- ians . Since receiving that letter , continued of him in the future . Mr. Pashley : Can I make another state - taining these 22 miles of roads under the old the Clerk , Mr. Webb had informed him that Wheeler sobbed bitterly , and begged the selves as well as recommend it to their by the Methil Parish Council for using a which can be obtained of any chemist . shooting competitions . A Fife undertaker has been taken to task On hearing the decision of the Court , Mrs. Physicians use bisurated magnesia them- water - bound method . he had been appointed tax collector for the Bench not to send him away . parishes of Sellack and Peterstow . patients , because they recognise that it not lorry for the funeral of a pauper . Those appointments would also have to obtain the The boy was taken to the workhouse only overcomes dangerous stomach acid and Viscount Deerhurst has presented a chal- sanction of the Local Government Board , and until he could be removed to the reformatory thus ensures easy digestion , but by its use lenge up to be shot for by teams of the no harmful drug is introduced into the sys- National Reservists of Worcestershire . he the ( Clerk ) wished to know whether he school . should apply for such sanction . tem and therefore there can be no un- In order to facilitate their work the Hartle- pleasant after - effects . Half teaspoonful pool pilots are to be provided with a motor taken in a little water after meals is usually pilot cutter of the most modern type . quite sufficient to keep the food contents of and stomach free from fermentation and Downs , near Lewes , Sidney Harmer , a boy of While gathering flowers the Sussex acid , thus ensuring normal digestion . eight , was drowned in a sheep or dew pond . A bowling green and two tennis courts Horton's BENEDICT PILLS land sealing fleet , returned to St. John's on The Diana , the last ship of the Newfound- two prominent residents of the district . have been presented to the town of Disley by Sunday with 7,500 pelts . An . ore hopper , weighing three tons , fell In a few days correct all irregularities and The Czar has issued Ukase ordering a test works at Hebburn - on - Tyne , killing him in- upon John Diamond , a labourer , at a refining case orderin emove all obstructions ; also ore Anemia , and mobilisation of the troops of two districts instantly . aubo no injury ; to the married or single are the province of Ekaterinoslav and the calling From most chemists , or by post , out of the reserves in two other districts of Scarborough shopkeepers have decided to CLARKE'S B41 PILLS open their shops on Whit - Monday , and to hemists ( Chief Dispenser from the late A doctor's daughter , aged twenty - eight , men's holiday . substitute Monday , June 8th , as Birmingham Lying - in Hospital ) , Dept. 30 , Aston threw vitriol over M. Benenson , the director a trades- Manor , Birmingham . Bold over 50 year All of the Russian - English Bank at St. Petere Great Northern Railway near HIGH - CLASS NOTH PAPERS at lowest prices.adies should send penny stamp for a free sample burg in a suburban tra on Saturday . M Bridge , Armley , and was killed by the Liver- Edwin Binks , a gravedigger , walked on the Largest and choicest stook in the district to ring bloo Improved Banitary Towel , and in - Benenson's face and hands were burnt , but it Heights is hoped that his eyesight may be saved .. Dool express to Leeds . dence was to the effect that she did ask for Belmont . Two miles south of Hereford , a doctor at the last moment . If Mr. Pash- on main road from Hereford to Pontrilas ley would like to give evidence , he ( the and Abergavenny . Operations now in pro- Deputy Coroner ) would take it down . gress ; completion expected in June . there was no good to he done by mak- ing any further statements if they have no direct bearing on the evidence . But After some consideration , Mr. Pashley said he would like to give evidence . Callow Hill , four miles south of Hereford on main road from Hereford to Ross and Monmouth . Operations now in progress ; completion expected May 9th . Harewood End , 10 miles south of Here- Mr. COLLINS , Mr. MEREDITH , and Mr. Harry Bickoen was sentenced to fort POWER all expressed the hope that the night ' imprisonment at Dorking on Saturday Board would unanimously consent to Mr. for obtaining unemployment benefit under the Webb holding these posts , and that the Clerk National Insurance Act by a false repre- would make this point clear to the Local sentation . Government Board . necessary sanction . The Clerk was instructed to apply for the THANKING THE BOARD . Free to Ladies . Mr. Pashley , on taking the oath , said he ford , and four miles north of Ross , on main resided at Kerne Lodge , in the parish of road from Hereford to Ross and Monmouth ; Walford . He was Mary Wood , who was , as she said , engaged tion expected 12 months hence . the employer of Hilda operations commenced April 20th ; comple- to come to his house as temporary cook Dr. CAMPBELL , the Workhouse Medical for fourteen days .. The details of the state- and Leominster ; operations now in progress ; granting him the increase in his salary , and Dinmore Hill , half way between Hereford Officer , wrote thanking the Guardians for ment he was about to make he gave to the completion expected about six months hence . for the opportunity of applying again if he above Superintendent before the first inquiry . The first intimation he had of the girl's illness Tin Hill , half - way between Hereford and found the work under the new regulationsnder cover , 1/1 or 2/9 , from Horton & Co. , the same province . was about 9 a.m. on the Wednesday morning , Hay ; operations commence May 11 , 1914 ; too heavy . April 8th , just as he was leaving home , when completion expected end of September Ruby Thrower informed him that Wood had Much Birch , half - way between Hereford been taken ill during the night and was still and Ross ; operations will commence May 11 , in bed . He said he would send for her panel and are expected to be completed at the doctor . The girl said she did not end of October . select from at the " Gazette " Office . Advt . teresting booklet post free . on Mr. Singer , a well - known American sports- man , has engaged M. Maicon , the airman , as " family pilot , " and he will be at Mr. Singer's disposal for flights at any time . his Southern Waziristan , was attacked by sup- While guarding a convoy a picket of the 18th Infantry Regiment at Kajurikach , in posed Mahsud raiders , one Sepoy being wounded . 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TROOPS TAKING PART . manoeuvres , For the first time on record the West Midlands have been chosen by the war Office for the annual army which have this year been fixed for Septem ber 14th to 18th . This arrangement is i accordance with the policy now in vogue of choosing a different area each year for the manoeuvres in order to let the country see as much as possible of the army and the way in which it goes about its business . The West Midlands have been chosen because they represent a type of country differing widely from areas previously selected . Al- though the roads are of good surface and broad , there will be plenty of stiff hill climbs to test guns , wagons , and horses , and the country is not too densely populated to offer any difficulties for camping and manoeuvring on a large scale . The manoeuvres ground has been divided up into six areas , bounded on the north by Presthope and Bridgnorth , on the west hy the Welsh border towns of Presteign , King- ton , and Whitney , on the south by Mon- mouth and Gloucester , and on the east by Tewkesbury , Evesham , and Pershore . The troops will be disposed as follows , working from north to south . Area 1 will he occupied by the Third and Fourth Divisions of the Southern and Eastern commands of the regu- lar army , consisting of six infantry brigades . Areas II to V. will be given up to Terri- torial Units , comprising the Notts and Derby Mounted Brigade , the Cheshire Brigade . the R.F.A. the Welsh Border Infantry Bri- gade , the Welsh Border Mounted Brigade , and the Western Signal Companies . In Area VI . will be the First and Second Divisions of the Aldershot command , consisting of five brigades of infantry . The regulars of the Southern command will have their brigade and divisional train- ing on Salisbury Plain during August and the early part of September , moving up into the monoeuvre area for divisional and com- mand exercises on September 10th Those of the Eastern command will carry out the whole of their training in the manoeuvre area from August 24th to September 12th . The troops of the Aldershot command will do their early training in the neighbourhood , of ' Aldershot , and will arrive in the manoeuvre area for divisional and command exercises early in September . The Territorial Units will all move into the manoeuvre area for brigade and divisional training some time before the manoeuvres begin . The object , of course , of allotting so many troops to each area of the manoeuvre ground is that they may thus be able to carry out this final train- ing independently of each other . so that all will be ready when the time comes for movements on a wider scale . TRAINING THE ARMY . To the ordinary public the manoeuvres are only a spectacle . They appreciate very little the amount of routine and training which has to be gone through before the units of the army are fit to take part in the highly complex evolutions of the field cam- paign . In point of fact , the whole of the soldier's training is working up to mancu- vres . They are , as it were , the culminating point in the evolution of the complete sol - t dier In the winter at home it is not possible to move troops about in the field . and the soldier's routine , therefore , during t the winter months chiefly consists of indivi- dual training . With the summer months f comes the real preparation for manoeuvres . li beginning with brigade training , and con- s tinuing with divisional and command ex- ta ercises By these steps the troops are gradu - a ally " turned up " to fighting trim , and when th the manoeuvres commence each unit should be perfect , both in brigade and battalion . drill . The manoeuvres also are valuable in m the training which they afford to the Army ac Staff and to divisional commanders Fruit Growing . IMPORTANCE OF CROSS POLLINATION . EXPERT AT HEREFORD . m ar g D to ha An informative and valuable lecture on the subject of prime importance to fruit - growers -the cross - pollination of fruit trees - was delivered under the auspices of the Hereford- shire Association of Fruitgrowers and Hor- ticulturists at the Mitre Hotel , Hereford , on le Wednesday afternoon , by Mr. George P. ha Berry , one of the lecturers employed by the L Board of Agriculture . The President , Dr. lo H. E. Durham , was in the chair , and br amongst a keenly - interested audience were I th Mr. Geo . Marshall ( vice - president ) , the Rev. he W. Fitzwarine Smith , Mr. J. Riley . Mr. H. th Weston , Mr. E. F. Bulmer , Mr. J. M. New- ton , Mr. H. Langston ( Pembridge ) . Mr. C. E. Lane ( Peterchurch ) , Mr. C. H. Rowberry al ( Malvern ) , Mr. J. H. Whiting , Mr. P. B. vic Barneby , Mr. G. Millyard , Mr. W. Parry , Ne Mr. J. A. Scudamore ( Upton Bishop ) . Mr. tis Felix Ford , Mr. A. J. Manning ( horticultural It instructor for the Herefordshire County and Council ) . Mr. J. H. Wootton , Mr. J. Love stu lock , Mr. C. W. Powell , Mr. J. Porter ( County Council organiser ) , Mr. F. Pem - ke bridge ) , Mr. G. F. Patrick , Mr. T. Davies W ( Pixley ) . Mr. M. Roe . Mr. M. C. Homes , I Mr. A. S. McWilliam , Mr. H. Snow , Mr. H. int Griffiths ( Aulden ) . Mr. A. E. Baldwin , Mr. th Price Addis , Mr. A. Hiles Smith ( secretary ) , and others . to ca an ecc Mr. Berry , after a formal introduction by be the Chairman , plunging directly into his subject . remarked that the art of pollina- le tion of fruit trees had not yet reached any- ne thing like finality . Although in a good many W Ge instances they thought they had made some progress , it would he absurd to say that they all had reached anything like finality in the Dr great majority of varieties of fruit . It had Ma been found in the vegetable world , just as in sel the animal world , that larger and finer fruit was obtained by cross - fertilisation , as com- pared with the result where the tree appar- ently pollinated itself with its own pollen . In fruit - growing , certain varieties produced pollen in their own flowers which was cap- able of fertilising them ; others , no matter Mi what artificial conditions were tried , refused to set with their own pollen . The lecturer | ne briefly described the process of pollination , hu and said one single grain of pollen was suffi- cient to cause fertilisation . na He thi 811 bo ev THE POLLINATION PERIOD . One peculiarity of the apple , and to some extent of the pear , cherry , and plum , was that the blossom became ready for fertilisa- tion some days before its own pollen was given off ; thus it was possible to cross - pol- linate four or five days before the fruit could da set itself with its own pollen . The ideal of climatic conditions for pollination were a dry kil atmosphere and a fine breeze . There was a considerable period - 19 or 21 days - during me which it was possible for pollination to take o place , and where they had an apple , pear , or plum which was proved to be self - sterile , k Wa br |