IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (26th August - 1st Sept. 1919)
This week's many stories include late night violence by two brothers in Crook Street, the Thatto Heath miner who shot his dog and gave it a slow death because his wife aggravated him, an extraordinary case of childbirth in Haydock, night poaching and two days of peace celebrations in Rainford, a theft from the Oxford Picturedrome in Duke Street and the disabled ex-soldier from Borough Road charged with pension fraud.