The case of a shocking death of a Harpurhey Dyer was heard by the Manchester coroner.
Twenty five year old John Francis Mullin was caught in shafting, whirled around many times and killed instantly with his brother a witness to the accident.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death due to negligence on the part of the management.
A women from Chadderton appeared in court charged with grevious bodily harm after throwing her baby son on the fire at a neighbors house.
It was said that she had suffered an epileptic fit and was remanded to the Oldham workhorses where the police surgeon could examine her.
Magistrates heard the case of an charge of assault that had occurred at the Park Picture Hall. Maude Koffler had been hit over the head with the butt end of a revolver by the wife of the lessee of the hall after a dispute over payment who said she had been provoked after being called a German.
The defendant was fined forty shillings
A Salford council meeting was told of cases of child labour in the borough -1,721 children were found to be working twenty hours per week, 197 up to 25 hours,178 to thirty hours, 215 to 40 hours and and 52 over forty hours whilst being paid 2s and 6d.
The council was asked to adopt the by laws under section one of the Chikdren act of 1903 which set down the regulations for employing children.
Increases in the price of flower saw the Manchester Baker’s Association agree to reduce the two and a half pence loaf in weight to 18oz and three penny loaf to 23oz.
A bookseller on Deansgate was fined for exposing an indecent print in his shop. The court was told that a well known Manchester lady, who did want to be identified, noticed a foreign illustrated paper on the the counter when visiting to purchase Flemish books for wounded Belgian soldiers.
The print was described as bad and poisonous by the lady. The bookseller told her that they were not intended for women and defended himself by saying that foreign tastes and ideas about literature were different to the English ones. He was fined 40 shillings.
Four men were sent to prison after pleading guilty to a robbery at John Heywood Ltd on Deansgate.
Over 2000 books, fifty pairs of scissors and 27 wallets to the value of £87 had been recovered along with cloth to the value of £29.
It was announced that three men had been executed in connection with the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Two others had their sentences commuted to life and twenty years while the assassin Princip who could not be executed on account of his age was sentenced to twenty years.
An umbrella manufacturer from Aytoun St. appeared in court charged with interfering with the comfort of passengers on the railway.
The court heard that a fellow passenger entered the first class carriage at Oxford Road station and as it pulled into Knott Mill, the defendant entered the carriage and shouted at him, accusing him of being a German and threatening to break his neck.A foreman porter at the station intervened and the train was delayed for nine minutes.
The defendant who said he thought the man was a German Jew and that he hated Germans was fined 20 shillings.
A Blackley resident received a post card from his brother who wa taken prisoner at the battle of Mons with the following instructions.
“Send all money per international order
Don’t send letters
I am keeping in fairly good health
You can send eatables as long as they are not perishable”
