IOO YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30 OCT - 5 NOV 1923)
This week's many stories include the shocking assault with an iron bar on two Sutton women, the local council elections take place, trolley buses are considered for the town, the St Helens Caledonian Society celebrates Halloween, the man who threw a brick at a yapping dog in Parr, the Langtree Street man that struck his wife with a poker and the harsh sentence for uttering a counterfeit bank note.
We start on the 30th in Sutton National School in Ellamsbridge Road when a three-day Parish Bazaar began. The St Helens Reporter said that the event had been a "topic of conversation in the district for nearly a year past" and commented how visitors would find "much to delight them".
St Helens Council elections took place on November 1st and with the Conservatives and Labour winning and losing one seat each, the state of the parties was unchanged. Labour had the most seats on the council but not enough to govern. Its majority of two councillors was outnumbered by the Conservative's majority of aldermen, which were not elected by the public. The results of elections in St Helens were always declared from the Town Hall steps and what was reported to be a "great crowd" had assembled to hear them. The victorious and defeated candidates' speeches were also given. "Sportsmanlike Spirit Prevails" declared the Reporter's headline.
The paper described on the 2nd how some coal stealers at Ashtons Green Colliery in Parr had been brought to court. Margaret Crompton had said to the police upon being arrested, "Nowt I say will mend it". Mrs Crompton was fined 5 shillings.
It wasn't until I came across an article in the Reporter about a celebration of Halloween in St Helens that I realised I had never seen such a report before. That suggests that the ancient custom was not that well observed in the town at that time, although celebrations of Halloween in the home were unlikely to have made the newspapers. The event in question had taken place in the gymnasium of the YMCA and it had been organised by the St Helens and District Caledonian Society.
The Reporter said their "old-fashioned Scotch Halloween Night" had been very successful, adding: "The hall was tastefully decorated with plants, evergreens, flowers, festoons, buntings, balloons, fairy lamps, etc., which, with the many pretty dresses of the ladies, gave charm during the whole of the gathering." Ducking for apples also took place, as well as potato ducking and nut cracking.
The vice-president of the Caledonian Society gave a talk on the "rise and practice of the old-time custom and celebration of Halloween", detailing the differences in its celebration in different parts of Scotland. But dancing was the main part of the programme with the Highland dances featuring two bagpipe players that were members of the society.
The first mention of trolley buses in St Helens was described in the Reporter this week. At a recent council meeting what were described as "trolley vehicles, driven by electricity and requiring no [tram]lines" were discussed. Many towns were said to be not re-laying their old tramlines when they were getting worn but were instead switching to the more efficient and quieter trolley buses.
Ald. Rudd stated that some of the outer districts of St Helens – such as between Toll Bar and Prescot – would require new tramlines laying soon and it would make sense to consider adopting trolleys instead. The council passed a resolution to make preliminary enquiries about systems and costs, although it would take four more years before the trolley buses appeared on St Helens roads.
Thomas Maleedy of Langtree Street in St Helens was charged with committing a severe assault on his wife by striking her with the kitchen poker while drunk. When arrested and charged by the police Maleedy had said: "It is tommy rot, absolutely tommy rot." Margaret Maleedy required two stitches to her head and told the court that her husband had come home for his dinner on the previous Saturday but refused to eat what was put in front of him.
He had walked away saying he "would not have the dirty dinner" and later punched his wife in the eye and hit her twice with a poker. Mrs Maleedy then said: "During the time he was hitting me he was saying he would murder me. For years he has done nothing but kick and abuse me but he is all right when sober." Her husband then tried to accuse his wife of being drunk when he arrived home – a common tactic by wife-beaters.
When asked if he had lived happily with his wife, the 52-year-old changed tack and played down his abuse by saying: "We have lived together as happily as the majority of people of the working class. There might have been a word or two, but that makes a man love his wife all the keener. There are not many workingmen's wives who can say they do not have a word now and then." But the magistrates were not taken in. Thomas Maleedy had 25 prior convictions to his name, mainly for drunkenness but they also included some assaults, and he was sent to prison for 28 days with hard labour.
William Nash from St Helens returned to Prescot Police Court on the 3rd charged with uttering a forged ten-shilling note. He was the grocer's assistant featured in last week's article that Supt. Garvey said lived a "very funny life" and when charged with passing the dud ten-bob note had replied: "Yes, what would you have done with it?" I think if a police officer had discovered dodgy money amongst their change I don't they would be expected to pass it on to someone else!
Nash was a married man with family and had passed the counterfeit note off at the Plough Inn in Prescot. A man from the Inland Revenue told the court that the 10-bob note was rather crude but had a certain resemblance to a genuine note and it could deceive people. Many had little experience of bank notes and so counterfeit versions did not have to be authentic to fool folk.
After a 4-hour hearing Nash was committed to Liverpool Assizes and on November 9th he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. That was after the prosecution had stated that there were so many fake ten-shilling notes in circulation in the North of England that many small shopkeepers were refusing to accept them.
What was described as an "extraordinary and brutal assault" on two women was also related in the Police Court on the 3rd when James Grice of Leonard Street was charged with feloniously wounding Hannah Salt and her daughter. The 38-year-old was employed at the Sutton Sheeting Sheds at St Helens Junction as a tarpaulin sheet repairer for the railway and he lived in Leonard Street.
Grice was accused of entering the home of Mrs Salt in Bold Road and attacking the woman with a large iron bar by striking her on the head. He inflicted very serious wounds and when her daughter had tried to rescue her mother, Grice had turned on her and battered her head with the bar. Both women were taken to Providence Hospital where they were found to be in a serious condition and not expected to recover for some time. Grice was remanded in custody for further enquiries to be made.
On the 5th Robert Walkden of Fleet Lane in Parr appeared in court charged with cruelty to a dog. We all know how barking dogs can be a nuisance, although Walkden's solution of chucking a half-brick at a yapping dog was rather extreme, particularly as he struck the poor mutt on its nose. The dog's owner, a Mr Williams, admitted to the Bench that his animal liked to bark at people and said it would walk up and down the road in front of his house as if it thought no other dog should be allowed to pass along.
The defendant, Robert Walkden, told the court that he was walking along the road with his small whippet dog on a lead when it was attacked by the other dog, and he only threw the stone to frighten it off. Mr Walkden called a woman named Mrs Quinn who gave evidence that the dog had followed her into a butcher's shop and bitten her on the leg. The magistrates still fined Walkden 15 shillings.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the men sent to prison for sleeping in a brick kiln, the wholesale St Helens shopbreaker, criticism of the train service between Liverpool and St Helens and the greatest ever comedy is shown at the Hippodrome.
We start on the 30th in Sutton National School in Ellamsbridge Road when a three-day Parish Bazaar began. The St Helens Reporter said that the event had been a "topic of conversation in the district for nearly a year past" and commented how visitors would find "much to delight them".
St Helens Council elections took place on November 1st and with the Conservatives and Labour winning and losing one seat each, the state of the parties was unchanged. Labour had the most seats on the council but not enough to govern. Its majority of two councillors was outnumbered by the Conservative's majority of aldermen, which were not elected by the public. The results of elections in St Helens were always declared from the Town Hall steps and what was reported to be a "great crowd" had assembled to hear them. The victorious and defeated candidates' speeches were also given. "Sportsmanlike Spirit Prevails" declared the Reporter's headline.
The paper described on the 2nd how some coal stealers at Ashtons Green Colliery in Parr had been brought to court. Margaret Crompton had said to the police upon being arrested, "Nowt I say will mend it". Mrs Crompton was fined 5 shillings.
It wasn't until I came across an article in the Reporter about a celebration of Halloween in St Helens that I realised I had never seen such a report before. That suggests that the ancient custom was not that well observed in the town at that time, although celebrations of Halloween in the home were unlikely to have made the newspapers. The event in question had taken place in the gymnasium of the YMCA and it had been organised by the St Helens and District Caledonian Society.
The Reporter said their "old-fashioned Scotch Halloween Night" had been very successful, adding: "The hall was tastefully decorated with plants, evergreens, flowers, festoons, buntings, balloons, fairy lamps, etc., which, with the many pretty dresses of the ladies, gave charm during the whole of the gathering." Ducking for apples also took place, as well as potato ducking and nut cracking.
The vice-president of the Caledonian Society gave a talk on the "rise and practice of the old-time custom and celebration of Halloween", detailing the differences in its celebration in different parts of Scotland. But dancing was the main part of the programme with the Highland dances featuring two bagpipe players that were members of the society.
Ald. Rudd stated that some of the outer districts of St Helens – such as between Toll Bar and Prescot – would require new tramlines laying soon and it would make sense to consider adopting trolleys instead. The council passed a resolution to make preliminary enquiries about systems and costs, although it would take four more years before the trolley buses appeared on St Helens roads.
Thomas Maleedy of Langtree Street in St Helens was charged with committing a severe assault on his wife by striking her with the kitchen poker while drunk. When arrested and charged by the police Maleedy had said: "It is tommy rot, absolutely tommy rot." Margaret Maleedy required two stitches to her head and told the court that her husband had come home for his dinner on the previous Saturday but refused to eat what was put in front of him.
He had walked away saying he "would not have the dirty dinner" and later punched his wife in the eye and hit her twice with a poker. Mrs Maleedy then said: "During the time he was hitting me he was saying he would murder me. For years he has done nothing but kick and abuse me but he is all right when sober." Her husband then tried to accuse his wife of being drunk when he arrived home – a common tactic by wife-beaters.
When asked if he had lived happily with his wife, the 52-year-old changed tack and played down his abuse by saying: "We have lived together as happily as the majority of people of the working class. There might have been a word or two, but that makes a man love his wife all the keener. There are not many workingmen's wives who can say they do not have a word now and then." But the magistrates were not taken in. Thomas Maleedy had 25 prior convictions to his name, mainly for drunkenness but they also included some assaults, and he was sent to prison for 28 days with hard labour.
William Nash from St Helens returned to Prescot Police Court on the 3rd charged with uttering a forged ten-shilling note. He was the grocer's assistant featured in last week's article that Supt. Garvey said lived a "very funny life" and when charged with passing the dud ten-bob note had replied: "Yes, what would you have done with it?" I think if a police officer had discovered dodgy money amongst their change I don't they would be expected to pass it on to someone else!
Nash was a married man with family and had passed the counterfeit note off at the Plough Inn in Prescot. A man from the Inland Revenue told the court that the 10-bob note was rather crude but had a certain resemblance to a genuine note and it could deceive people. Many had little experience of bank notes and so counterfeit versions did not have to be authentic to fool folk.
After a 4-hour hearing Nash was committed to Liverpool Assizes and on November 9th he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. That was after the prosecution had stated that there were so many fake ten-shilling notes in circulation in the North of England that many small shopkeepers were refusing to accept them.
What was described as an "extraordinary and brutal assault" on two women was also related in the Police Court on the 3rd when James Grice of Leonard Street was charged with feloniously wounding Hannah Salt and her daughter. The 38-year-old was employed at the Sutton Sheeting Sheds at St Helens Junction as a tarpaulin sheet repairer for the railway and he lived in Leonard Street.
Grice was accused of entering the home of Mrs Salt in Bold Road and attacking the woman with a large iron bar by striking her on the head. He inflicted very serious wounds and when her daughter had tried to rescue her mother, Grice had turned on her and battered her head with the bar. Both women were taken to Providence Hospital where they were found to be in a serious condition and not expected to recover for some time. Grice was remanded in custody for further enquiries to be made.
On the 5th Robert Walkden of Fleet Lane in Parr appeared in court charged with cruelty to a dog. We all know how barking dogs can be a nuisance, although Walkden's solution of chucking a half-brick at a yapping dog was rather extreme, particularly as he struck the poor mutt on its nose. The dog's owner, a Mr Williams, admitted to the Bench that his animal liked to bark at people and said it would walk up and down the road in front of his house as if it thought no other dog should be allowed to pass along.
The defendant, Robert Walkden, told the court that he was walking along the road with his small whippet dog on a lead when it was attacked by the other dog, and he only threw the stone to frighten it off. Mr Walkden called a woman named Mrs Quinn who gave evidence that the dog had followed her into a butcher's shop and bitten her on the leg. The magistrates still fined Walkden 15 shillings.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the men sent to prison for sleeping in a brick kiln, the wholesale St Helens shopbreaker, criticism of the train service between Liverpool and St Helens and the greatest ever comedy is shown at the Hippodrome.
This week's many stories include the shocking assault with an iron bar on two Sutton women, the local council elections take place, trolley buses are considered for the town, the St Helens Caledonian Society celebrates Halloween, the man who threw a brick at a yapping dog in Parr, the Langtree Street man that struck his wife with a poker and the harsh sentence for uttering a counterfeit bank note.
We start on the 30th in Sutton National School in Ellamsbridge Road when a three-day Parish Bazaar began.
The St Helens Reporter said that the event had been a "topic of conversation in the district for nearly a year past" and commented how visitors would find "much to delight them".
St Helens Council elections took place on November 1st and with the Conservatives and Labour winning and losing one seat each, the state of the parties was unchanged.
Labour had the most seats on the council but not enough to govern. Its majority of two councillors was outnumbered by the Conservative's majority of aldermen, which were not elected by the public.
The results of elections in St Helens were always declared from the Town Hall steps and what was reported to be a "great crowd" had assembled to hear them.
The victorious and defeated candidates' speeches were also given. "Sportsmanlike Spirit Prevails" declared the Reporter's headline.
The paper described on the 2nd how some coal stealers at Ashtons Green Colliery in Parr had been brought to court.
Margaret Crompton had said to the police upon being arrested, "Nowt I say will mend it". Mrs Crompton was fined 5 shillings.
It wasn't until I came across an article in the Reporter about a celebration of Halloween in St Helens that I realised I had never seen such a report before.
That suggests that the ancient custom was not that well observed in the town at that time, although celebrations of Halloween in the home were unlikely to have made the newspapers.
The event in question had taken place in the gymnasium of the YMCA and it had been organised by the St Helens and District Caledonian Society.
The Reporter said their "old-fashioned Scotch Halloween Night" had been very successful, adding:
"The hall was tastefully decorated with plants, evergreens, flowers, festoons, buntings, balloons, fairy lamps, etc., which, with the many pretty dresses of the ladies, gave charm during the whole of the gathering."
Ducking for apples also took place, as well as potato ducking and nut cracking.
The vice-president of the Caledonian Society gave a talk on the "rise and practice of the old-time custom and celebration of Halloween", detailing the differences in its celebration in different parts of Scotland.
But dancing was the main part of the programme with the Highland dances featuring two bagpipe players that were members of the society.
The first mention of trolley buses in St Helens was described in the Reporter this week.
At a recent council meeting what were described as "trolley vehicles, driven by electricity and requiring no [tram]lines" were discussed.
Many towns were said to be not re-laying their old tramlines when they were getting worn but were instead switching to the more efficient and quieter trolley buses.
Ald. Rudd stated that some of the outer districts of St Helens – such as between Toll Bar and Prescot – would require new tramlines laying soon and it would make sense to consider adopting trolleys instead.
The council passed a resolution to make preliminary enquiries about systems and costs, although it would take four more years before the trolley buses appeared on St Helens roads.
Thomas Maleedy of Langtree Street in St Helens was charged with committing a severe assault on his wife by striking her with the kitchen poker while drunk.
When arrested and charged by the police Maleedy had said: "It is tommy rot, absolutely tommy rot."
Margaret Maleedy required two stitches to her head and told the court that her husband had come home for his dinner on the previous Saturday but refused to eat what was put in front of him.
He had walked away saying he "would not have the dirty dinner" and later punched his wife in the eye and hit her twice with a poker. Mrs Maleedy then said:
"During the time he was hitting me he was saying he would murder me. For years he has done nothing but kick and abuse me but he is all right when sober."
Her husband then tried to accuse his wife of being drunk when he arrived home – a common tactic by wife-beaters.
When asked if he had lived happily with his wife, the 52-year-old changed tack and played down his abuse by saying:
"We have lived together as happily as the majority of people of the working class. There might have been a word or two, but that makes a man love his wife all the keener. There are not many workingmen's wives who can say they do not have a word now and then."
But the magistrates were not taken in. Thomas Maleedy had 25 prior convictions to his name, mainly for drunkenness but they also included some assaults, and he was sent to prison for 28 days with hard labour.
William Nash from St Helens returned to Prescot Police Court on the 3rd charged with uttering a forged ten-shilling note.
He was the grocer's assistant featured in last week's article that Supt. Garvey said lived a "very funny life" and when charged with passing the dud ten-bob note had replied: "Yes, what would you have done with it?"
I think if a police officer had discovered dodgy money amongst their change I don't they would be expected to pass it on to someone else!
Nash was a married man with family and had passed the counterfeit note off at the Plough Inn in Prescot.
A man from the Inland Revenue told the court that the 10-bob note was rather crude but had a certain resemblance to a genuine note and it could deceive people.
Many had little experience of bank notes and so counterfeit versions did not have to be authentic to fool folk.
After a 4-hour hearing Nash was committed to Liverpool Assizes and on November 9th he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour.
That was after the prosecution had stated that there were so many fake ten-shilling notes in circulation in the North of England that many small shopkeepers were refusing to accept them.
What was described as an "extraordinary and brutal assault" on two women was also related in the Police Court on the 3rd when James Grice of Leonard Street was charged with feloniously wounding Hannah Salt and her daughter.
The 38-year-old was employed at the Sutton Sheeting Sheds at St Helens Junction as a tarpaulin sheet repairer for the railway and he lived in Leonard Street.
Grice was accused of entering the home of Mrs Salt in Bold Road and attacking the woman with a large iron bar by striking her on the head.
He inflicted very serious wounds and when her daughter had tried to rescue her mother, Grice had turned on her and battered her head with the bar.
Both women were taken to Providence Hospital where they were found to be in a serious condition and not expected to recover for some time. Grice was remanded in custody for further enquiries to be made.
On the 5th Robert Walkden of Fleet Lane in Parr appeared in court charged with cruelty to a dog.
We all know how barking dogs can be a nuisance, although Walkden's solution of chucking a half-brick at a yapping dog was rather extreme, particularly as he struck the poor mutt on its nose.
The dog's owner, a Mr Williams, admitted to the Bench that his animal liked to bark at people and said it would walk up and down the road in front of his house as if it thought no other dog should be allowed to pass along.
The defendant, Robert Walkden, told the court that he was walking along the road with his small whippet dog on a lead when it was attacked by the other dog, and he only threw the stone to frighten it off.
Mr Walkden called a woman named Mrs Quinn who gave evidence that the dog had followed her into a butcher's shop and bitten her on the leg. The magistrates still fined Walkden 15 shillings.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the men sent to prison for sleeping in a brick kiln, the wholesale St Helens shopbreaker, criticism of the train service between Liverpool and St Helens and the greatest ever comedy is shown at the Hippodrome.
We start on the 30th in Sutton National School in Ellamsbridge Road when a three-day Parish Bazaar began.
The St Helens Reporter said that the event had been a "topic of conversation in the district for nearly a year past" and commented how visitors would find "much to delight them".
St Helens Council elections took place on November 1st and with the Conservatives and Labour winning and losing one seat each, the state of the parties was unchanged.
Labour had the most seats on the council but not enough to govern. Its majority of two councillors was outnumbered by the Conservative's majority of aldermen, which were not elected by the public.
The results of elections in St Helens were always declared from the Town Hall steps and what was reported to be a "great crowd" had assembled to hear them.
The victorious and defeated candidates' speeches were also given. "Sportsmanlike Spirit Prevails" declared the Reporter's headline.
The paper described on the 2nd how some coal stealers at Ashtons Green Colliery in Parr had been brought to court.
Margaret Crompton had said to the police upon being arrested, "Nowt I say will mend it". Mrs Crompton was fined 5 shillings.
It wasn't until I came across an article in the Reporter about a celebration of Halloween in St Helens that I realised I had never seen such a report before.
That suggests that the ancient custom was not that well observed in the town at that time, although celebrations of Halloween in the home were unlikely to have made the newspapers.
The event in question had taken place in the gymnasium of the YMCA and it had been organised by the St Helens and District Caledonian Society.
The Reporter said their "old-fashioned Scotch Halloween Night" had been very successful, adding:
"The hall was tastefully decorated with plants, evergreens, flowers, festoons, buntings, balloons, fairy lamps, etc., which, with the many pretty dresses of the ladies, gave charm during the whole of the gathering."
Ducking for apples also took place, as well as potato ducking and nut cracking.
The vice-president of the Caledonian Society gave a talk on the "rise and practice of the old-time custom and celebration of Halloween", detailing the differences in its celebration in different parts of Scotland.
But dancing was the main part of the programme with the Highland dances featuring two bagpipe players that were members of the society.
At a recent council meeting what were described as "trolley vehicles, driven by electricity and requiring no [tram]lines" were discussed.
Many towns were said to be not re-laying their old tramlines when they were getting worn but were instead switching to the more efficient and quieter trolley buses.
Ald. Rudd stated that some of the outer districts of St Helens – such as between Toll Bar and Prescot – would require new tramlines laying soon and it would make sense to consider adopting trolleys instead.
The council passed a resolution to make preliminary enquiries about systems and costs, although it would take four more years before the trolley buses appeared on St Helens roads.
Thomas Maleedy of Langtree Street in St Helens was charged with committing a severe assault on his wife by striking her with the kitchen poker while drunk.
When arrested and charged by the police Maleedy had said: "It is tommy rot, absolutely tommy rot."
Margaret Maleedy required two stitches to her head and told the court that her husband had come home for his dinner on the previous Saturday but refused to eat what was put in front of him.
He had walked away saying he "would not have the dirty dinner" and later punched his wife in the eye and hit her twice with a poker. Mrs Maleedy then said:
"During the time he was hitting me he was saying he would murder me. For years he has done nothing but kick and abuse me but he is all right when sober."
Her husband then tried to accuse his wife of being drunk when he arrived home – a common tactic by wife-beaters.
When asked if he had lived happily with his wife, the 52-year-old changed tack and played down his abuse by saying:
"We have lived together as happily as the majority of people of the working class. There might have been a word or two, but that makes a man love his wife all the keener. There are not many workingmen's wives who can say they do not have a word now and then."
But the magistrates were not taken in. Thomas Maleedy had 25 prior convictions to his name, mainly for drunkenness but they also included some assaults, and he was sent to prison for 28 days with hard labour.
William Nash from St Helens returned to Prescot Police Court on the 3rd charged with uttering a forged ten-shilling note.
He was the grocer's assistant featured in last week's article that Supt. Garvey said lived a "very funny life" and when charged with passing the dud ten-bob note had replied: "Yes, what would you have done with it?"
I think if a police officer had discovered dodgy money amongst their change I don't they would be expected to pass it on to someone else!
Nash was a married man with family and had passed the counterfeit note off at the Plough Inn in Prescot.
A man from the Inland Revenue told the court that the 10-bob note was rather crude but had a certain resemblance to a genuine note and it could deceive people.
Many had little experience of bank notes and so counterfeit versions did not have to be authentic to fool folk.
After a 4-hour hearing Nash was committed to Liverpool Assizes and on November 9th he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour.
That was after the prosecution had stated that there were so many fake ten-shilling notes in circulation in the North of England that many small shopkeepers were refusing to accept them.
What was described as an "extraordinary and brutal assault" on two women was also related in the Police Court on the 3rd when James Grice of Leonard Street was charged with feloniously wounding Hannah Salt and her daughter.
The 38-year-old was employed at the Sutton Sheeting Sheds at St Helens Junction as a tarpaulin sheet repairer for the railway and he lived in Leonard Street.
Grice was accused of entering the home of Mrs Salt in Bold Road and attacking the woman with a large iron bar by striking her on the head.
He inflicted very serious wounds and when her daughter had tried to rescue her mother, Grice had turned on her and battered her head with the bar.
Both women were taken to Providence Hospital where they were found to be in a serious condition and not expected to recover for some time. Grice was remanded in custody for further enquiries to be made.
On the 5th Robert Walkden of Fleet Lane in Parr appeared in court charged with cruelty to a dog.
We all know how barking dogs can be a nuisance, although Walkden's solution of chucking a half-brick at a yapping dog was rather extreme, particularly as he struck the poor mutt on its nose.
The dog's owner, a Mr Williams, admitted to the Bench that his animal liked to bark at people and said it would walk up and down the road in front of his house as if it thought no other dog should be allowed to pass along.
The defendant, Robert Walkden, told the court that he was walking along the road with his small whippet dog on a lead when it was attacked by the other dog, and he only threw the stone to frighten it off.
Mr Walkden called a woman named Mrs Quinn who gave evidence that the dog had followed her into a butcher's shop and bitten her on the leg. The magistrates still fined Walkden 15 shillings.
St Helens Reporter courtesy St Helens Archive Service at Eccleston Library
Next Week's stories will include the men sent to prison for sleeping in a brick kiln, the wholesale St Helens shopbreaker, criticism of the train service between Liverpool and St Helens and the greatest ever comedy is shown at the Hippodrome.