The Maryport Advertiser November 3rd 1882 A Child Suffocated at Parton

A Child Suffocated at Parton

Mr. J. WEBSTER, Coroner for the Lordship of Egremont, held an inquest  at the Bugle Horn Inn, Parton, on  Monday afternoon last, touching on the  death of a child two months old, named John MYERS, the son of John MYERS, a  drayman residing at Parton.  From the evidence it appeared the child had been put to bed when its   parents retired to rest about eleven o’clock on the 28th of October. At seven  o’ clock the next morning it was found dead underneath the bed clothes.  A jury returned a verdict to the effect that the child had died of   suffocation. __________________

 

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