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01 June 1844 Inquests Print E-mail
INQUESTS.


       An inquest was held in Whitehaven on Friday last, before W. LUMB,
Esq., coroner, on view of the body of James SMITH, who on the same day was
stifled by an accumulation of foul air in a coal mine on Cleator Moor, belonging to
Messrs. BARKER and HARRISON.

       Verdict: Accidental Death. The deceased was twenty seven years of
age, and had been married only about a fortnight.

       Another inquest was held before the same gentleman on Monday, at
Maryport, on view of the body of Mary CURWEN, sixty-two years of age, who,
on Sunday morning last,  was found dead in bed by the side of her husband, who
was unconscious of what had occurred, nor had he heard his wife complain of
indisposition at anytime throughout the night.

       The jury returned a verdict of "Died by the visitation of God."
 
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