Post by HeatherC on Jun 24, 2009 12:02:54 GMT -5
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From West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, Friday 25 August 1848
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
A CHILD KILLED - On Monday evening last, a child about two years old, was struck down, near the quay, at Penzance, by a horse which was drawing a cart heavily laden with coal. The wheel passed over the child, and although Mr. Couch, surgeon, was speedily in attendance, every effort to save life was ineffectual, the child expired in about three house after the occurrence. He was the son of Mr. WILLIAM QUICK, carpenter. Mr. Couch found the child's face much bruised on both sides, and the ............ ........(?) on either side was compressed severely and overlapped, from which circumstance several blood-vessels must have been ruptured, and the child died from suffocation. An inquest was held on the body before JOHN ROSCORLA Esq., coroner for the borough, when a verdict was returned of "accidental death." The cart was driven by a boy of about twelve years of age, and the jury animadverted on the practice of allowing persons so young to drive carts.
From West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, Friday 25 August 1848
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
A CHILD KILLED - On Monday evening last, a child about two years old, was struck down, near the quay, at Penzance, by a horse which was drawing a cart heavily laden with coal. The wheel passed over the child, and although Mr. Couch, surgeon, was speedily in attendance, every effort to save life was ineffectual, the child expired in about three house after the occurrence. He was the son of Mr. WILLIAM QUICK, carpenter. Mr. Couch found the child's face much bruised on both sides, and the ............ ........(?) on either side was compressed severely and overlapped, from which circumstance several blood-vessels must have been ruptured, and the child died from suffocation. An inquest was held on the body before JOHN ROSCORLA Esq., coroner for the borough, when a verdict was returned of "accidental death." The cart was driven by a boy of about twelve years of age, and the jury animadverted on the practice of allowing persons so young to drive carts.
