SINGULAR ACCIDENT NEAR KESWICK

On Saturday afternoon a fatal accident occurred at a place called Shundra

within a short distance of Lowthwaite, in the parish of St Johns Keswick. At

an early hour in the morning a young man named William Routledge, son of Mr

Wiliam Routledge of Lowthwaite, and late of Berrier, Greystoke left home

with a horse and cart for Keswick market. He was returning at about

half-past two o,clock in the afternoon. Each side of the cart was laden with

plasterers laths and the young man was seated between the bundles at the

bottom of the cart. When close to Shundra one side of the bridle got hooked

to the crook upon the cart shaft and drew the horse to one side. By this

means the cart was drawn into the gutter and overturned, young Routledge

being below it and the horse was thrown completely on its back. A young man

named Joseph Tinkle was passing at the time and immediately rendered

assistance, but on righting the cart he found that the young man had been

killed. The injuries were on the right temple and the heart. The deceased

was only twenty years of age.