Village History

DEATH FROM THE EFFECT OF BURNS

On Monday an Inquest w as held before Dr. G. H. De’Ath (District Coroner) on view of the body of Henry Beckett. axed 28 years, who died on Sunday morning. Mr. Farmborough was foreman of the jury.—Catherine Beckett, wife of Charles Beelett, maid the deceased wail her son, and lived with her, and that was his body which the jun bad just viewed. He had never had a fit of any kind an far a. ate knew until he met with the aocid.nt On April 7th she yaw him about six o’clock on that night and them be went out. When he o inn home she bad gone to bed. She did not go s. ‘deep. She met him coming npetain with the Eghted lamp in his band. He did not ear anythiog. When she saw him the lower part of his clothing was on fire, and she called to his father, who put t . .e flames out. Ile walked up to bed after his father had taken his clothes off, but did not speak. Ha walked up the stairs without help, and went to bed. She put several pieces of potato on the burns at different times, keeping them on all night She ast up with deceased all night. He did not sleep, sod the next day he was suable to get up. The next morning she put some linseed oil on t burns.. The burns were en the left leg and the fingers of the right hand were also burnt. He seemed very ill all day and in pain, though he took his nourishment well, and 00 Sunday she sent fir the doctor. Up to then she dressed the wounds with linseed oil. She had nursed him day and Light since then. During the first fortnight he took his food very well, but after that he became weaker. Last Tuesday morning he looked black in in the face, and seemed to have a “Ht.” and got gradually worse, having the fits frequently. He died on Sunday morning at one o’clock. He had never had any serious awe s i n his life; was rot in any regular work,and never had been. He was 28 years of age. By the Foreman There was only one leg burnt, and that was the left one. His pipe was not in his mouth. She did not know what had put his clothes on fire. He had a deformity of the left arm. She went down to fetch the gl.t because it was his habit to come in after they had gone to bed midge to sleep downstairs. She thought he might have spilt some oil on his trousers. By a juryman : She found his pipe in his coat pocket afterwards. By the Cormier He did not remember how the accident happened. By a juryman: There was no fire in the room where be was sitting. Charles Beckett said the deceased was his son. He was never in regular work, having a deformity of the left aria. Witness had seen him drunk, sometimes twice a week, and he was in the habit of going eat in the evening, and not returning until after witness had 10110 to bed. Deceased went cut as usual on April 7th, and he had not seen him during that day. Deceased slept in the room where his body was now. His brother and two children, aged 9 and 6, also slept there, but no one else. A little after ten o clock, in sourer to a call from his wife, witness went downstairs, and law the deceased in flames. Witness pulled off demeaned’s trousers, the left leg of which was almost burnt away. Deceased did not speak. Witness put the lames out. Deemed then went to bed, walking by himself without any difficulty. Witness did not then think be was under the influence of drink. Witness and his wife sat up with deceased during the night. Deceased said it was his pipe that set his clothes on fire. The lamp when witness saw it was blazing on the ground, and witness put a bag on it. When he first saw deceased be was in a room downstairs near when the lamp bad fallen. There was no fire in the grate. Witness heard the deceased come into the house. Deceased was in the habit of smoking a wooden ‘ to be continued…………………………

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Buckingham Express – Saturday 07 May 1892