This week’s round-up of pieces from the Batley News relating to St Mary’s parish mainly centres around a couple of parishioners before the magistrates. As usual I have put in bold the names of those who served with the military. And, as ever, the spelling and punctuation matches that of the newspaper.
The two court cases linked to parishioners involved soldiers Joseph Higgins and Jimmy Lyons:
Batley Court – Monday.
“My captain told me to clear off home last Saturday, and I took him at his word,” said Joseph Higgins, soldier, of Fleming Square, Batley, when apprehended by Constable Saycell as an absentee from the Durham Light Infantry. —Remanded to await an escort.
And:
TO-DAY’S BATLEY POLICE.
THE MORAL CODE
A Batley Footballer and His WifeJames Lyons, the well-known Batley footballer, now in the Army, asked that an order made in July 1913, requiring him to pay 15s. per week to his wife, May Lyons, should be discharged on account of her adultery.
Mrs. Lyons admitted that for 15 months she had been living with Horace Firth, of Westgate Hill, Bradford. “I only went to live with this man since another woman had a child by my husband,” she added.
The order was discharged.
One parish death appeared in the family notices columns this week:
FLYNN. —On the 2nd inst., Thomas Flynn, Fleming’s Buildings.
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