North Country Members and the CD Acts W. T. Stead (The Northern Echo, July 18, 1876) Tomorrow afternoon Sir Harcourt Johnstone will move the second reading for the Bill for…
The Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts The Northern Echo (June 21, 1875) The man who makes a cesspool, not the man who cleans it out, is the offender against…
The Executions W. T. Stead (The Northern Echo, January 5, 1874) This morning, before most of our readers see these lines, three murderers will have ceased to exist. The New…
The West Auckland Poisonings: Execution of Mrs. Cotton Prisoner in the Condemned Cell W. T. Stead (The Northern Echo, March 25, 1873) p. 3 The conduct of the unfortunate woman…
Mrs. Cotton W. T. Stead (The Northern Echo, March 24, 1873) pp. 2-3 Strangled! Yes. It might have been worse. She might have been boiled alive! In the weird old…
A Painful Subject W. T. Stead (The Northern Echo, October 23, 1872) Modern society, after all, does not differ very much from the old massive fortresses of the Dark Ages…
