150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (15th - 21st AUGUST 1872)
This week's stories include the drunken death of Thomas Beecham's wife, an advertisement for a new assistant nurse at Whiston Workhouse, how the offer of marriage halted a domestic abuse case, the Parr woman accused of behaving in a scandalous manner before hundreds of people, a meeting of the St Helens District Teachers Association and the Crank woman at the centre of a child manslaughter case returns to court.