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LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE January 5th 1860
CAISTOR - One day last week, a fine healthy lamb was reared by a ewe, the property of Mr Wass of Clixby. Both ewe and lamb are doing well.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE February 9th 1860
GRASBY - Machine Accident - On Monday an inquest was held at the Cross Keys public house, before Geo. Marris, Esq. Coroner, on view of the body of the wife of Frank Quickfall, cottager, late of Clixby. On Saturday morning the woman was working at the thrashing machine in the farmyard of Mr Pigot, and that description of work being done by noon, she was sent to borrow a scuttle at the farm of Mr Wass, where the workpeople were engaged thrashing at the time. It appears that the poor woman had asked the foreman who was busy feeding the machine, and whilst bending forward to make herself heard by him, the tumbling shaft caught hold of her dress, when instantaneously she was dragged down and whirled three times round the shaft, which tore and mangled her body in a most horrible manner; both arms and one leg were broken, and her head was frightfully mutilated. A bed was immediately laid in a cart; and the sufferer conveyed home to Grasby, where surgical assistance was soon rendered, but without avail, as the patient gradually sank and remained unconscious from the time of the accident until she expired at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning. Verdict "accidental death". It may be true that Mr Wass himself never employs women to work his machine, but no excuse can be found for either master or men, who, as in this instance, allow such a dangerous portion of the machinery to remain uncased. The husband of the deceased has been "marling" at Wold Newton for some time past, from whence he returned as usual on Saturday night, to be greeted with intelligence of his sad calamity.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE April 5th 1860
BRIGG - Suicide - On Sunday morning the body of a drover was discovered hanging by a cord from a thatch peg upon a stack at the Wold Farm of Mr Walker, Somerby. The man attended Caistor Fair on Friday and Saturday, and was last seen at the Reindeer, Brigg road, on Saturday evening where he called for a pint of ale and sat or two hours in a moody state before drinking it. An inquest was held on Monday.
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