This week's stories include "Gompertz's Great Original Spectrescope" exhibited at the Volunteer Hall, the old woman who called the magistrate "darling", the Duke Street swindler who conned a dozen shopkeepers into giving her goods, the "jolly good dinner" for the elderly poor of Parr, the Sutton Glassworks sandpit tragedy and the uncooperative man that the police had to carry horizontally out of a Market Street shop.