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    1. [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Carlisle Journal, 22 Feb 1845 - Inquests
    2. Petra Mitchinson
    3. Saturday 22 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 1) INQUESTS. ----- (Before Mr. CARRICK, Coroner.) At Mungrisdale, in the parish of Greystoke, on Friday, the 14th instant, on the body of Hannah SANDERSON, aged 2 years, daughter of Thomas SANDERSON, joiner. The unfortunate child, on the Wednesday afternoon prior, had gone into a neighbour's house, and seeing a tin standing upon the table, took hold of it, and before she was observed put it to her mouth and drank the boiling water which it contained. She was immediately seized with most excruciating pain and difficulty of breathing, and died early the following day from the inflammation produced. Verdict-"Accidental death." On the following day, at Faugh, in the parish of Hayton, on the body of Sarah, daughter of Edward DALTON, husbandman, aged 11 years, whose death was occasioned by burning, on Tuesday forenoon. She was hanging a pan of potatoes on the crook, when her dress caught fire. Another child, aged 4 years, assisted her in her endeavours to extinguish the flames, but they failing, the deceased ran into the street, where her frightful screams alarmed the whole village. Mr. John BROWN ran to her and stripping off his coat folded her in it, by which judicious step the fire was got under, not, however, before the greatest part of the child's clothes had been consumed, and her body had received most severe injuries upon almost every part, from which she died in twenty hours. Verdict, "Accidental death." At Aspatria, on Monday last, on the body of Mr. Joseph FEARON, grocer and draper, who committed suicide on Saturday morning. The deceased had been spending Friday night at a beer shop in the village, kept by James DOUGLASS, and did not return home till six o'clock in the morning: his mother received him. When he entered she said "Oh, Joseph how you slight my good advice;" she then returned to her room, and the servant girl gave him the boot jack. Deceased told her he did not require it, and that she was to go to bed: he was then sitting by the table resting his head on his hands, and appeared to be crying. At seven o'clock he was found in a shed in the brewery premises suspended from a beam, and quite dead.-Verdict, "Suicide during insanity." Deceased was twenty-three years of age, he had of late been intemperate in his habits, and was one of the parties present when Thomas FORSTER lost his life last June, by the discharge of a gun in BOWLE's stack-yard, between one and two o'clock in the morning. (Before Mr. THOMPSON, Coroner for Westmoreland.) At the New Inn, Shap, on Tuesday last, on the body of John SLACK, aged 33, an excavator on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway. Deceased had been labouring under typhus fever, and on the Sunday morning previous was found dead in bed. Great care and attention had been paid to him by the person with whom he lodged. He had been attended by a surgeon.-Verdict, "Died by the visitation of God."

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