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Kirkham of Audleby, and that she left her situation on the 26th. She then went to Caistor, and purchased at a druggists shop half a pound of arsenic, stating that she wanted it for her sister who resided at Grasby. The person who served her at the shop did not entertain any suspicion, in consequence of so large a quantity being asked for. The drug was carefully wrapped in paper and labelled "Poison". The unfortunate girl took a portion of the poison upon a queen-cake on the road between Caistor and Grasby, and was able to reach her sisters house at the latter place, when she became ill. Mr Hutchinson surgeon, of Caistor, who happened to be in the village, properly attended her, but medical assistance was unavailing, and she died in a few hours. The motive alleged by the poor girl for the rash act was, that her Mistress (Mrs Cavill) was jealous of her, and had spread reports injurious to her character. It was clearly proved, however, to the jury that there was no foundation for the assertion, that the whole was a delusion, and that the unfortunate girl was much afflicted with lowness of spirits, and had frequently imagined that people raised false reports of her. After a patient investigation of all the circumstances of the case, the jury returned a verdict of insanity.
LINCOLN MERCURY
February 12th 1841
There has been so much snow in the road between Caistor and Great Limber especially on the exposed hill, that carriages have daily been left to be dug out during the past week. Men are constantly digging the snow out of the road, but an easterly wind often fills up the way as fast as it can be cleared. Several carriers waggons, and a farmers waggon loaded with corn, for Caistor, have been dug out of the snow from which twelve horses could not extricate them.
LINCOLN MERCURY
March 4th 1842
An Eccentric Patriarch - A short time ago died, at Kirton in Lindsey, in his 90th year, Joseph Frow, carpenter, father of Joseph Frow of Caistor. He was formerly apprenticed at Barrow upon Humber. Amongst the numerous vagaries which have characterized his life, upwards of thirty years ago he conceived the notable whim of making his own coffin, the bottom of which he constructed of different kinds of wood grooved together, which he invariably used, to the day of his death, as a portable cupboard, pantry, larder, corn and malt bin, store house and general warehouse; whenever he had occasion to move his locality, thither went upon his shoulder the coffin, with its heterogeneous contents; and he appeared much delighted with the gaping observations of passers-by. At his decease, his frail future tenement, like hisself, had got the worse for wear and cost as much in repairing as a new one. They are interred together without lamentation.
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