Untitled

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 7

A distressing, story wbb told at Clerkenwell .Sessions {When Annie Gibble wis bound over; for having broken with, a hammer a plate glass window in tho, Piccadilly premises of the' ono'of ,the Daimler'Company's, clerks took a Daimler Motor Company,. It was stated that:! motor oar -out, ana , ran- over ,the,woman's husband.'-' As -a;, result/the man 'was absolutely vuined and his family broken ,up, and 1 ho.: had ' since gone ;out; of .' his . mind, Mr. I'almor Chizzola,' ; for the Daimler '.Company, said that they, desire,d not; to press, the case. : 'I'ho clerk' who had'caused the accident had .intercepted letters from; the .poor , .woman, sent .in the hope ,of receiving .compensation, and the firm: knew nothing of tho affair until a writ' was issued. The action was defended and judgment-, went ; against the husband. Mr. \Vynno, for the prosecution, said the Daimler Company had since behaved handsomely ir. the matter, and Mr,. Wallace, K.O. said .no. reflection rested upon. them.. A.t' au inquest held at Frecklcton, near Blackpool, on the body of Isabella Harrison (22), daughter of Henry. Harrison. I'ago, : ■farmer,. ;\vno drowned'; herself in a pool behind the, farm, the, evidence showed that the deceased was engaged to be married,'that the courtship had proceeded smoothly, and that; tho . home surroundings were happy, 'Since illnessa few months ago, however, the deceased had suffered from - depression and ; melancholia^; and her father 1 had ,-ihteiided sending her to Caldsr Vale to recuperate. She .{was missed ; from - the ..house,' and ■her father : and brother, seeing her making her way 'across Hh'e,.fields, behind the farmhouse, followed hotly ,in pursuit. Upon hearing ■ her father's vwhistle, 1 the girl hastened her paces, and; outdistancing her' . relatives, ; jumped into. a deep pit 200 yards away. Neither father nor son could swim, and be-, foro ,the body; was recovered with a rake atV ■ tached to a rope life was extinct. The coro-, , ner said the oircumstances , were .'identical' .with' the suioidq of ,a -farmer's daughter; at Grimsargh'a 'wcek ago; but the father stated that the: girl ■ did not read the nowspapers. A verdict was returned .of temporary insanity. . / v Mr. Lloyd-Gebrge exporiencfe when paying ' his first visit to .Carnarvon Castlo since his 1 appointment to tho Constableship, Mrs. 1 Lloyd-Georgo and •ho arrived there with a small party and tho now Constable. himself . knocked at the massive door which guards I ;tho main!entrance.. In duo'.tinVe'tho -carej taker presetned herself. Having had no pro- ; vious iiitimation : of the. visit she,, not ~unnaturally, rogarded the'members of the party : as strangors, and. forthivith demanded from Mr. Lloyd-Georgo the usual fee of fourpence - for admission. Mr. Lloyd-Goorge's friends 1 offored explanations, whereupon ; the good lady scanned tho Constable from head to too, 1 and satisfied herself that, though lie had changed sinco sbo had last seen him at close . quarters, ,ho \vas indeed Mr: Lloyd-George; • The incident greatly nimuspd tho ; Constable, i who,- after cordially shaking tho carctakcr • by tho hand, passed through the . portals, [and mads a brief tour of inspection.