The Maryport Advertiser 25 March, 1882 Death of William STAMPER

Death of William STAMPER

The Maryport Advertiser - 25 March, 1882

SHOCKING ACCIDENT On Friday evening last an inquest was held at the Station Hotel, Workington, before Mr WHITESIDE, deputy-coroner, and a jury, touching the death of William STAMPER, aged 11 years and eleven months. The first witness called was William STAMPER, the father of the deceased, who said he last saw his son alive about half-past seven on the previous night. The boy was quite dead when he was brought into the house afterwards the same evening. The accident happened on the opposite side of the platform to here the booking office is. Deceased was accustomed to going on the platform, but witness never remembered seeing him get on a wagon. John GRAHAM, a lad who was with the deceased at the time the accident occurred, said that he was on the platform with STAMPER on Thursday evening. They were in one of the waiting rooms, and witness noticed a goods train passing, and said "There is a train." William STAMPER ran out of the waiting room, and witness looked through the widow and saw him get hold of a wagon and make a step as.... (line  missing)... Henry WALKER, a porter, deposed that he was coming up the line towards Workington on the previous night, and had a lamp in his hand, when he saw something lying on the line. Took it to be a man, but on closer examination saw it was your STAMPER. The body was lying face downward, with the head pointing towards Whitehaven : one arm was lying over the railway, and the other was scarcely touching it. Called Inspector JACKSON's attention to it and he came at once. They lifted the body on the platform, and as far as witness could judge deceased was quite dead. The train on which he attempted to ride would be going about five or six miles an hour, as it was going to sop at Workington. Sergeant PICKARD said he received information Thursday about a boy having been killed. He went and examing the body and found that the hands were partly taken off, and deceased had also received injuries about the head. Went to the place where the accident occurred and found a quantity of blood. The Coroner summed up the evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

 

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