Berkshire Chronicle Reading 07-1914

Thew";' ... 80me ""nfl.iQiin!l
hold ' on Thured'if b 1.
borou.g.b ooroner~ on' t.)". IlWlly'",c,oi
Hamilton Merritt! .
rep'a irer, of ~, .B<>utli'''''''E'tOil
Reading, who ,.. ... 1, drowned
jo tho Kennet on 'l{ueaday.

\!ill",rILo"'" Merritt, tho Wife· c;>~ tho·
tho' her bu.b.lJÂ¥l dill
and w,", ou<; ,II the
a frlqnd.
Ho returned "h,,,,, · ".df.n"~
with his friOlld.
He had
drinking.

Ho htMI dinDer, and,

gOlDg to batho, wen~ out again.

him not ~o go, as she t.bougbt

' for h ~m to slay 'a.t. home and reet/

perai6ted.
H'o WM .uhi""t to ,iiI.>,
had three sinco they -wore married.
not I~ tho habit of bathin5{ m th ~
He

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usually a tompera-to man,

(~",-'io"'.tly broko ()ut.

He had not had

ti~e, until TueSday,
bo had been drinktng.

[or; Ho dKI not, so far
ea r~y ill tho morning.

as

n~hl~d~~J~'~'Q~lmor~~;
Tho
bath.,

arter'Jdinnor.

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"'Be an

t:rh~d!.:" '.rot

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to .. d epth
reo.chod to bif w,,;"t,
did Dot &.ttempt to IIwim. Wi.tnasa swam
balfwoy a.orooo lho river, and, 'looking
found tha.t I the other man . bad d~
earod.
Jie '!rOt back at on"" and f<>Un<{

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CAPTURE 'AF'rlm EX,€lITJNG
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docc&Sed lying at tbe ,boltom 01 tho
At the Slou"h Fetty · Sessions
ill al1ou' four feet of wator.
Aa he
not got him out he .houte<! for help. n"':'!ay, perc~y
HerJ.>ert Bca)e8, '
about thceo mimrt ... the dec.......a "'88 oarler, of '1
High .Street,
out
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IBoeg1s; Bed,. ; as! pllioGd in
jury {lilt ..vard queetiona to the wit- , oharged with I~hopbreaking ilIt
sa to b .. inability to get tho dooo •• od ~ of Mt: Philip.I'llimbl.r, Mr.
and sovoral ~xprcsoed tho opinion that Mr . .Fred BU.tter,..."nd -.alfA •.H.'D
~.vo loo~ his bood. If tho depth money. ' He ..."" 10180 I
_our foo~ rt ought not to haye been lng with intent to commit ...
to ' j{et hol.d of b,m.
Cl\al~ey Road Slough on:1 r
It was uoel.... to make tho
S:upt.. Pe.~D t.pplied ~ lor a
mi/rM hno mid .. the u";til .next Wedoesqay, ' Ofhlcb: i\rass ~::.:~'t!t

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Ch!,lvey Roa.d , ID':' the

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Mqncj6Y. mO"ling. , H[fe~o-~~:::i~~~~~!lJ~:
the doorway of the C

':nd, happened to .tqp
as. the 'prisoni\l) cam'e rOlJfl(l " 500'
w,.y hrIdge. Although . the
in plam clo'hea, Scales llit USlUU . ~',U
jus~

The constable cha&ed him
m-eMa. and here he lost.

tune. Ho eventually found

the railway, a.nd Alter &n

at ,thQ baok of,6()me houses in the' LeaJ!<~rill
R<\ad the man feU through tbe roof
shed in ' P.,C. Ta.ylor's · ga.rden ~na
eecured.

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WOKINGH:AM TOWN
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.: A' .. .m<>eling of th~ Wokingham
GOlUlcil w.... held l ... t e.e!!ing.
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, n ,, ;ly 10 1;11 '4 jc.,,"Pt W cane<day).
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W.,cl lI' ·sd ~y, D30 till 12.30.
Fnd.ty ,.d ld Sa tu rfi n..v e ve ni ngs. 6 till S.

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I ntt.;r~..,t allowed on DCnooita ·
2~ per <:cnt. G~n or al D. p.r l m e~t.
IH.-t '(.:I"·" t. S ~ ,p p l c. Dl ~ n f.a ry D epar tment.

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B ra nches:
. 377, ()x(",,1 ,via", and 16, ~o kin~h.m
H oa.d . R<.:a.liltlg'. and 23. Yf):rket
l-'Ja'cc. Vvokingho.m. '

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TI.uJ(\~ . dc" p os~ frco on a pplication
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ARTHpR S.
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'Lewis Coop.er).
WINE , MERfH~NT

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''.X. mo~M,;cA"RtKj<:T PLACE. LREADING .

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c+Uarmtm retai ned. who ..,;U
j"t th o oom"land of cu.otorcera

wIDe to

bo bottled, "ackod

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~nd b"ave bee~
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by \1, !~e . ~riti.sh. '
Arlal.vtidl1 Control ' to' be

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