Newspaper Articles Regarding Harrogate's

Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury – Saturday 27 October 1866

Cruel Assault on a Woman – Joseph Harrogate well known to the police, was charged with having committed a cruel assault on Jane Hindmarsh in the early hours of Monday morning. The complainant stated that about two o’clock in the morning she was engaged in cleaning the Plough Inn (Mr Anderson’s), Easton Street. When she came to the door to empty some dirty water, she saw the prisoner there and he spoke to her. He said he had left his coat at a short distance from where they were and he desired her to accompany him until he got it. She refused to do so and he thereupon threatened “to knock her head through the wall.” As soon as he had made use of these words he struck her a fearful blow on the left eye, and she appeared in court with her left cheek and eye in a shocking condition. Sergeant Bryson heard the blow at some distance of about 20-yards, and he ran up and apprehended the prisoner. Superintendent Elliot said the prisoner was a very bad character, depending on fallen women for his support. On a former occasion he had promised magistrates to leave the town, but he had failed to do so. The Mayor said the Bench had resolved to inflict a penalty of £20 and costs, or, six months imprisonment with hard labour.

Based on the above Joseph Harrogate's (senior) daughter married a Hindmarsh - so was there a connection?  He also left in his will his estate to a Hindmarsh.

North Eastern Daily Gazette Tuesday July 6 1920

LIFE LOST FOR A BALL FATAL SEQUEL TO A MOTOR ACCIDENT AT MIDDLESBROUGH

A verdict of “Death from acute pneumonia following upon an accidental fall due to colliding with a motor cycle,” was returned at a Middlesbrough inquest last evening held upon Gwendoline Harrogate (5 ½), of 95, Waterloo-road. The accident occurred on June 2^nd last and deceased sustained several bruises. Later pneumonia supervened, from which she died on Friday last.

It appeared that on the day of the accident deceased had run out on to the road to recover a ball which she was playing, and on making her way back to the pavement collided with a motor cycle ridden by Charles Culley Rosevear, of Grove House, Clairville-road. The right handle-bar caught her on the cheek and she fell. Although bruised she was able to proceed home.

According to the motorist he sounded his horn and shouted when some yards from deceased. She did not seem to notice him and he swerved in towards the pavement to avoid a collision. Had he swerved the other way he would have gone straight into the child. He had only been riding a motor cycle about a month.

In finding the verdict already recorded the Coroner (Mr. O. H. Cochrane) found that no blame was attachable to the rider of the cycle. It was difficult to judge what really happened, and easy to find fault, but it seemed to him that an expert rider would not have taken the course which the motorist in this case had taken. He (the coroner) might be wrong, but he thought the course taken was not the proper one, but he had no doubt that the motorist had done the only thing he thought best in his opinion to do.