25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 4, 1975

FORMER American astronaut Gordon Cooper today predicted in Sydney that the moon would have to be colonised soon to combat over population on earth. Colonel Cooper said countries were already suffering from a sever food shortage, and predicted colonies would live in shelters on the moon and cultivate the rich moon soil.

50 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, November 3, 1950

BOLTON Wanderers' Supporters' Club was launched last night at a crowded meeting in the Co-operative Hall. In spite of the Wanderers' directors' refusal to recognise a club, it was decided to proceed with the project. Mr L. Sydall, presiding, said that the directors did not consider a supporters' club necessary and they objected to the use of the name Bolton Wanderers in connexion with such a club. Mr Sydall could not see what objection could be raised, but as it was a legal point he had consulted a solicitor, and been told that the name could be used.

125 YEARS AGO

ON Saturday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Town Green, near Ormskirk, on the body of Mr William Forshaw, who came by his death under the following circumstances:- On the 24th ult. Mr Charles Rylance, the well-known florist, who is an enthusiastic sportsman, in company with some gentlemen from Bolton, and Mr William Forshaw, senior, went to shoot over the Moor Hall Estate, belonging to Ald Thos Walmsley, of Bolton. In the evening Mr William Forshaw, junior, drove the gentlemen in a dogcart to Mr Rylance's residence. The party got out, and Mr Rylance called to a man in his employ, named Baker, to take his gun out of the dogcart. The gun, a double-barrelled one, was loaded. Before Baker could do so, young Mr Forshaw had got hold of it and was dragging it out, when it exploded. Baker fell, crying out that he was shot, and young Mr Forshaw said he too was shot. Baker was shot on the side of the head, and in the centre of the forehead. The muscle of Mr Forshaw's right arm was torn away; lockjaw set in at the end of ten days, and he died on Friday week. Mr Rylance stated that he usually placed his gun at half cock, but on this occasion, at the request of young Mr Forshaw, he put the hammer down.

A verdict of 'Accidental Death' was returned.