150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (30th MAY - 5th JUNE 1872)
This week's stories include the blacksmith that was wrongly charged with indecently assaulting a child in Parr, the woman falsely accused of stealing money from a Greenbank lodging house, the man who worked a 150-hour week, the Westfield Street doctor who sued a patient for not paying his bill, the Rainford sister-in-law defamation case, the start of Newton Races and how the courtroom biter ended up being bitten.