Transcribed by Susan Bergeron. Geo. The Carlisle Patriot Friday, February 13, 1880 Fatal Freak At one o'clock on Monday morning a constable, while passing through Leaf Square, Broad Street, Pendleton, near Manchester, saw a boy lying insensible on the ground bleeding profusely from wounds on the head. The inmates of the nearest house were aroused, but the occupier, the Rev. F.H.A. WRIGHT, rector of St. Paul's Church, Ellor Street, at the first glance did not recognise the lad's features, somewhat disfigured by the injuries they had sustained. Eventually, however, he discovered that they were those of his youngest son, NICHOLAS, 14 years of age. Medical aid was at once procured, but the boy died a few minutes before two o'clock, without having recovered consciousness. On the police making an examination of the premises, it was found that the attic window was open, and it was therefore evident that the deceased had, after the retirement of the family for the night, gone out upon the roof and had fallen headlong to the ground, a distance of nearly 40 ft. .....