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- 25 March 1938: With her life at stake, Kathleen Mumford of Middleton tells a Leeds court that she gassed her severely handicapped son to spare him
- 4 March 1869: Trains begin to pass through Leeds town centre on the North-Eastern Railway extension
- 28 February 1867: The lawyer of Thomas Higginbottom, a Dewsbury baker, tells magistrates that his client’s previous conviction for sexual assault should not count against him
- 2 March 1867: Zachariah Barton, “a tall, sanctified-looking man,” appears before Driffield magistrates for “expounding the gospel”
- 3 March 1867: Robbed by a young Leeds prostitute, the elderly captain of a Goole boat keeps his shirt on
- 2 March 1867: Anthony Cogan, the (Irish?) keeper of a lodging house, nine pigs, and a donkey, appears before Leeds magistrates, despite the efforts of the Pig Protection Society
- 2 March 1830: Leeds Corporation prosecutes its own waste contractors, Messrs Kelly, and a Woodhouse Moor landowner, who have been colluding in the illegal dumping of faeces
- 17 January 1832: A waning Paganini plays for a grateful but declining public at Leeds Music Hall
- 1 November 1530: Dining at Cawood on All Hallows’ Day, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII’s ex-Lord Chancellor, receives divine warning that his time is nigh
- 14 December 1832: On election day following passage of the Reform Act, the magistrate Thomas Bosville has troops fire on radical rioters outside the Tontine Inn, Sheffield, killing five
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