![]() ![]() Two men entered the Tipping Arms for some refreshments and to have a rest. The deceased was respectably connected, but for some time past had given himself up to drinking, and had previously been imprisoned for petty thefts, committed while in his drinking bouts.Ībout half-past six o'clock on Tuesday morning an awfully sudden death took place in the Tipping Arms public-house, Bold Heath, about three-and-a- half miles from St. Twyford and Jamieson, was at once sent for, and arrived in about four minutes but, although Tickle was still living, he died in about five minutes afterwards. He was visited at five minutes past eleven o'clock, when he was found lying in a pool of blood, and his throat cut. DOUGLAS JOHNSON HOUSE FIRE MAN IN THE HAT TRIALHe was subsequently committed for trial at the sessions, and was put into a cell at twenty minutes to eleven o clock. About seven o'clock that morning a man named William Tickle, 46 years of age, was locked up on the charge of stealing a fowl, value 2s, the property of Robert Johnson, and before being placed in the cells was searched in the usual way, and his pockets emptied. Helens Police Station on Saturday forenoon. ![]() HELENS.Ī most extraordinary case of suicide occurred in the cells at the St. William Plumbley, of Eccleston, a fireman at the boilers, was badly injured, and Catherine Jane Roberts, of Pocket Nook, was severely scalded by some of the boiling liquid falling upon her. The following men were killed, William Marsh, engineer at the works, of Black Brook, Michael Kellv, labourer, and James Lee, labourer. DOUGLAS JOHNSON HOUSE FIRE MAN IN THE HAT WINDOWSA space of about 2,500 square yards, where the boilers and oxidizers stood, is a heap of ruins, and the roofs and windows in the neighbourhood have suffered considerably from the missiles which were thrown into the air by the explosion. Fortunately, as it was Sunday, but few persons were at the works, except those engaged at the engine and boiler, and the loss of life has not been so great as the extent of the damage would lead one to suppose. The sheds under which the boilers stood were thrown into the air a great height, and were enveloped in a cloud of steam, which, with the terrific noise which accompanied the explosion, was seen and heard for miles round. Another great mass of iron was thrown on the roof of a glassworks, which it smashed in. So great was the force of the explosion that half of one of the boilers was hurled a distance of 250 yards, and embedded several feet in the soil. Helens, causing the loss of three lives and a serious destruction of property. Evans and M'Bryde's chemical works, Pocket Nook, near St. On Sunday afternoon, at two o'clock, five boilers filled with caustic soda exploded at Messrs. Misc St Helens inquests Misc St Helens inquests ![]()
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