Hi Everyone, These 2 articles were sent to me by Bohdan. The first article will show you should never fall asleep whilst intoxicated :-)) The second article is about a boy whilst out playing on the ice with his mates, comes to a very sad end. Bradford Observer 1863 Page 5 Column 3 ROBBERTY AT A PUBLIC HOUSE. - On Friday, at the Borough Court (before Wm. Dewhist, Esq. and Mr. Alderman Wright), two young women, named Mary Allen and Catherine Mortimer, and a young man, named Martin Coldwell, were charged, the two former with stealing a pocket book containing five or six sovereigns and a bill of exchange for 95 pounds, and a silk handkerchief, the property of Mr. W. BARRACLOUGH, butcher, of Wibsey: and the male prisoner with feloniously receiving some of the property. Mr. Hutchinson appeared for the prosecution. On Wednesday evening, the prosecutor went to the Oddfellows' Hall, in Thornton Road. He had something to drink, and met with the female prisoners, whom he treated with a few glasses of ale. He subsequently fell asleep, and when he awoke, in an hour and a half after, he found that he had been robbed of the pocket book, containing a bill of exchange for 95 pounds and a silk handkerchief. He gave information of the robbery at the police station, and described the prisoners. P.C. Burnet found the prisoners Mortimer and Coldwell at a common lodging-house in Longlands Street, and the other, Allen, at another. He found the silk-handkerchief and a sovereign, one shilling, and eightpence halfpenny upon the male prisoner. He also observed the male prisoner go upstairs, and throw some money from him. Mortimer was subsequently asked to stand up, and money dropped from her clothes. Mortimer declined to say where she had got the money, and the male prisoner said he had worked for it. The two female prisoners had taken the bill of exchange to Mrs. Sarah Haigh, of the Old George and Dragon beerhouse, in Westgate, and requested her to take care of it till next day. The prisoners were committed for trial at the sessions. Bradford Observer 1870 January 5th, Wednesday Page 3 Column 3 THE ICE-ACCIDENT AT LOW MOOR. - Yesterday morning an inquest was held by Mr. Barstow, deputy-coroner for the Halifax district, at the New Inn, Hill-top, Low Moor, on the body of SIDNEY BARRACLOUGH, seven years of age, who as reported in the Observer of Monday, was drowned in the Hill-top reservoir on Saturday last. ABRAHAM BARRACLOUGH grocer and carter of Low Moor, father of the deceased, was the first witness called. He stated that about two o'clock on Saturday afternoon he was standing near his own house, which is not far from the reservoir, when a woman informed him that a lad was drowning in the reservoir. Not knowning at that time who it was, he hastened to the spot, and found that it was his own son who was in the water, the ice having given way. At that time the deceased was struggling in the surface of the water, about sixty yards from the bank, and was screaming for his father. Witness got a rope round his waist, and some men on the bank took hold of it while he went out on the ice to try to rescue the boy. When he had gone about forty yards out the ice broke under him. At that moment his son sank under the water for the third time. Witness found it impossible to proceed and it was with great difficulty that he was drawn to the embankment by the men who held the rope. The son's body was got out at about half-past four that afternnon. - A man named Edward Naylor Baines, who lives at the reservoir house, and has charge of the reservoir substantiated the father's evidence.- It appears that the reservoir is well fenced off, and from the statements of a number of boys who were on or near the ice at the time of the accident, but whom it was not thought necessary to call as witnesses, there seems to be no doubt that deceased and his companions had been sliding, and had come to his death in consequence of venturing further out on the ice than the rest. A verdict to the effect that deceased had been accidentally downed was returned. Thanks heaps Bohdan, -- Best Wishes Kim Pasquill Victoria-AUST Email: [email protected] Barraclough Surname Study: http://users.net2000.com.au/~football/index.html ICQ Number: 30110913 Researching: Worldwide - BARRACLOUGH and variant's WRY - TAYLOR-Lightcliffe BATEMAN-Wibsey,Wike POLLARD-Wibsey