25 YEARS AGO

From the Evening News, May 22, 1973

LIZA Minelli confirmed today that her engagement to Desi Arnez (Jun) is off, and that she loves Peter Sellers. 'The marvellous thing is that he is in love with me,' said the actress-singer who started dating the three-times-married actor regularly just 11 days ago.

BRITAIN has sent warships to protect fishing vessels inside the disputed 50-mile limit. It is 'an act of serious aggression,' says Iceland's Minister for Fisheries. 50 YEARS AGOof+bf+iof=helveticao 125 YEARS AGO

of=helveticaA MOST remarkable case in connection with the 'Crowner's Quest Law' has just occurred at the quiet little village of Egerton. A painter named John Haworth, aged 64, of Egerton, was engaged painting skylights on the top of Mr Deakin's dyeworks, on the 14th instant, when on leaving the building his foot got caught in a spout and he fell upon his side in the gutter. He continued at his work until the 16th inst. when he was taken ill, and he died on the 18th, Sunday. Information did not reach the police until the 19th instant, and the coroner, Mr J.B. Edge, was informed the next day, the 20th. And now comes the strange part of the story. Notwithstanding the fact that the doctor attending deceased had given a certificate to the effect that he had died from the effect of a fall, and the parties belonging to the deceased man had been warned by the officer that no doubt an inquest would be held on the body, the friends and relations were all invited to the funeral, and the 'baked meats' prepared for the occasion, which was fixed for Wednesday, the 21st. instant. Accordingly, between three and four o'clock on that day the funeral cortege left the house of the deceased and proceeded to the burial ground of Walmsley Unitarian Chapel, where the body was interred about four o'clock, the Rev. J.H. Matthews, minister, reading the burial service. At half past four o'clock, while the service was still going on and the minister and mourners were still standing round an open grave, a policeman arrived hastily on the spot with the message that the Coroner had ordered an inquest, and the interment must not take place. The earth had not been emptied into the grave, and as the jurymen had been summoned, an apparent way out of the difficulty was suggested - that of the jurymen viewing the body then and there. This was accordingly done by bringing the coffin to the surface and the lid taken off, each of the jurymen gazing in turn upon the features of the dead man. The coffin was then lowered again into the grave, but the earth was not returned on to the coffin lid. The inquest had been summoned for this Thursday afternoon at the Church Hotel, Egerton, and was adjourned until Saturday, the Coroner severely reprimanding the son-in-law of the deceased, and stating that it would be his duty either to very heavily fine him, or order a criminal prosecution against him for thus breaking the law in face of the warnings that he had received against the interment of the body. The minister had also rendered himself liable to a very heavy fine, or other proceeding. The body was ordered to be exhumed.

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