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West Cumberland Times - Sat April 16 1932
WHITEHAVEN MAGISTRATES

The magistrates in the Bench at Whitehaven Police Court on Thursday were:

Mr R JEFFERSON (chairman), Messrs W H WATSON, W H WANDLESS, W M BIRKETT, M MOSSOP, J McDONALD, W ROWE (Mayor).

ENGAGEMENT

The engagement is announced of Mr John ROBLEY, FSI, only son of Mrs ROBLEY and the late Mr Thomas ROBLEY, "Ingleberg", Beckermet, and Miss Florrie WATSON, eldest daughter of Mrs WATSON and the late Mr Fergus WATSON of Haverrigg, Gosforth, Cumberland.

ARREARS

Thomas BELL, a platelayer, of 96 Ramsden Street, Barrow-in-Furness, appeared at the Whitehaven Police Court, on Thursday, for non-payment of affiliation arrears can costs amounting to £26 19s 10d, due to Georgina RAE ,of 69 Duke Street, Whitehaven. BELL was employed as a plate-layer by the LMS Railway Co.

WHITEHAVEN ACCIDENT

A distressing accident occurred at the junction of Duke Street and Strand Street, Whitehaven, on Wednesday afternoon, when John DONAGHY, aged 28, single, of Ladypit Cottages, Sunnyhill, was seriously injured. A Ford motor lorry, belonging to Messrs G KNOXB, builder, Cleator Moor, drew up, it is stated, at the end of Strand Street to allow another car to come out of the side street into Duke Street. While the driver was re-starting his engine, it is thought that the handbrake of the lorry slipped and the vehicle ran forward down the sloping road surface, ,mounted the pavement, and pinned DONAGHY, who was standing at the corner, against the wall of the Wheatsheaf Hotel. A number of men in the vicinity rushed to the assistance of DONAGHY, who was taken to Whitehaven Hospital, where he was found to have sustained a compound fracture of the right leg. The front of the lorry was damage, and the driver of the truck suffered from shock.