Rossendale Free Press 10 Aug 1889
10/08/22 19:51
To Colonel Mitchell of Rossendale, RJC Mitchell of Springfield House, Rossendale, and W Mitchell Esq of Fern Hill, Rossendale.
I, the undersigned Isaac Leach, Editor of the Bacup Times and Rossendale Advertiser, having caused to be inserted in the Bacup Times and Rossendale Advertiser paragraphs militating against you, and having from time to time in the various issues of the said newspaper, made unfounded statements against you, more particularly in the issue of the 6th July under the heading of 'Colonel Mitchell and the High Bailiff of Salford', and being aware of the total untruth of such statements and paragraphs, and desiring to express my unqualified regret that I should have been the means of inserting such statements and paragraphs, I hereby unreservedly retract and withdraw all such statements, paragraphs, charges, insinuations and innuendoes affecting you or any member of your family, and beg that you will accept this apology and humble retractions. And farther, and as an admission that I have done wrong, and in order to endeavour to in some way make all the amends in my power, I agree that the apology shall be made public, and undertake to insert the same in the Bacup Times and rossendale Advertiser, and in the local papers, and in the papers circulating in this district selected by you; and moreover will send a donation of £10 to the building fund of the new Conservative Club at Waterfoot, in which I am informed Colonel Mitchell takes a deep interest. In addition to this, I am willing to pay the costs, charges and expenses of your solicitors and legal advisers, Messers Lumley and Lumley of 37, Conduit-street, London W. Dated this 1st day of August 1889 Isaac Leigh.
More disgraceful immorality than that which was brought to light at Edgeside Holme, Newchurch, on Monday, it would be difficult to conceive. the case is surely without a parallel in local history. Here a girl gives evidence at a coroner's inquest that at the age of fifteen, she is the mother of an illegitimate child; that id died in her arms 9presumably by overlaying) and that her own step-father (now serving a twelve month's sentence for rape) was her seducer. the discovery of such brutal and appalling family relations in country villages where the conditions of life are so favourable and the people are supposed to leaved lives as pure as the air they breathe, gives us some faint insight into the story which the slums of our great cities conceals, and must tend to fill earnest workers in the cause of social purity with despair.
A quantity of fish was seized by Mr Rawling, the sanitary inspector, a few days ago and condemned as being unfit for human food. It was taken from there or four Manchester hawkers in different parts of Rawtenstall, and consisted principally of fresh and kipper herrings. it is expected that prosecutions will be instituted against the offendeing parties. The public would do well to be on their guard against unscrupulous internet hawkers of this description.
Rawtenstall 107 all out, Enfield 114 for 4.
I, the undersigned Isaac Leach, Editor of the Bacup Times and Rossendale Advertiser, having caused to be inserted in the Bacup Times and Rossendale Advertiser paragraphs militating against you, and having from time to time in the various issues of the said newspaper, made unfounded statements against you, more particularly in the issue of the 6th July under the heading of 'Colonel Mitchell and the High Bailiff of Salford', and being aware of the total untruth of such statements and paragraphs, and desiring to express my unqualified regret that I should have been the means of inserting such statements and paragraphs, I hereby unreservedly retract and withdraw all such statements, paragraphs, charges, insinuations and innuendoes affecting you or any member of your family, and beg that you will accept this apology and humble retractions. And farther, and as an admission that I have done wrong, and in order to endeavour to in some way make all the amends in my power, I agree that the apology shall be made public, and undertake to insert the same in the Bacup Times and rossendale Advertiser, and in the local papers, and in the papers circulating in this district selected by you; and moreover will send a donation of £10 to the building fund of the new Conservative Club at Waterfoot, in which I am informed Colonel Mitchell takes a deep interest. In addition to this, I am willing to pay the costs, charges and expenses of your solicitors and legal advisers, Messers Lumley and Lumley of 37, Conduit-street, London W. Dated this 1st day of August 1889 Isaac Leigh.
More disgraceful immorality than that which was brought to light at Edgeside Holme, Newchurch, on Monday, it would be difficult to conceive. the case is surely without a parallel in local history. Here a girl gives evidence at a coroner's inquest that at the age of fifteen, she is the mother of an illegitimate child; that id died in her arms 9presumably by overlaying) and that her own step-father (now serving a twelve month's sentence for rape) was her seducer. the discovery of such brutal and appalling family relations in country villages where the conditions of life are so favourable and the people are supposed to leaved lives as pure as the air they breathe, gives us some faint insight into the story which the slums of our great cities conceals, and must tend to fill earnest workers in the cause of social purity with despair.
A quantity of fish was seized by Mr Rawling, the sanitary inspector, a few days ago and condemned as being unfit for human food. It was taken from there or four Manchester hawkers in different parts of Rawtenstall, and consisted principally of fresh and kipper herrings. it is expected that prosecutions will be instituted against the offendeing parties. The public would do well to be on their guard against unscrupulous internet hawkers of this description.
Rawtenstall 107 all out, Enfield 114 for 4.
