Daily Mail, London
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- Daily Mail, London, Wednesday, 17 June 1896, p. 1, col. 5.
Ramsgate.—Bed sitting rooms, from 12s. a week.—Mrs. Sackett, 14, Meeting-street, High-street.
[Record added Dec 2011] - Daily Mail, London, Monday, 10 May 1897, p. 6, col. 7.
"Police Courts.
Half-Cured Lunatics.
The danger of discharging lunatics from asylums before their cure has been completed was once more exemplified when William Henry Sackett, a man of strange appearance, was charged at the Thames Police-court with stealing certain books and stationery, the property of Dr. Barnado.
The evidence of Alfred Cook, the manager of the Edinburgh Castle Coffee Tavern, and that of the police was to the effect that Sackett flung a heavy paving stone through one of the windows, and then took out a bundle of books, which had become thus exposed.
"A doctor recommended me to read books," said the poor creature, when asked what he had to say. "I saw one that I liked in the window. I only wanted to read it. I did not mean to steal it."
The prisoner, who had only been discharged from Claybury Asylum two days before committing the offence, was certified by the divisional surgeon to be suffering from delusional insanity.
He was removed to the workhouse, muttering that one of his ears had been sawn off."
[Record added Dec 2011] - Daily Mail, London, Wednesday, 12 January 1898, p. 4, col. 6.
The World's Press
Ablaze on his Wheel.
Frank Taxton of Glenville, while on his bicycle on Saturday, met with a peculiar accident. Through some unaccountable manner two boxes of parlour matches, which he carried in his coat pocket, became ignited while he was rapidly coasting down the Gobbleman hill. Owing to the impetus of the wheel he could not stop, and there was a good-sized blaze in progress when he reached the bottom. A few rods further on was Sackett's Pond. Taxton swerved the wheel to the right, passed through the gateway, and splashed into the pond—fire, wheel, and all. The water did its work well. Barring a scorched side and arm and a ruined suit of clothes he is none the worse for his adventure.—"White Plains Argus."
[Record added Dec 2011]
Source:
Daily Mail (London). WorldVitalRecords (http://www.worldvitalrecords.com). (Researched by Chris Sackett).
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