|
(Continued from page 7)
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
October 28th 1842
HIGHWAY ROBBERY - About 5 o'clock on Tuesday evening the 18th inst., a young man returning with an empty cart was stopped as he was passing Grassby Bottoms, and rising the hill towards Kirmington. Two men drew near the cart and asked charity; the young man replied "that he had nothing to give them". One of the robbers seized him by the collar and pulled him down, while the other picked his pockets of 5s 7 1/2d. While they were thus employed, a carriage was seen coming down the hill, and the fellows ran off in to the wood by the side of the road. One of the robbers had a hat and a dark velvet jacket on; the other a round worsted cap and blue smocking frock; both the men appeared about 5feet ten inches high, and seemed about 30 years old.
LINCOLNSHIRE MERCURY
March 3rd 1843
Deaths - At Grasby, near Caistor on Thursday the 23rd ult. in later life Isabella, widow of Mr Richard Cuthbert, for many years a respectable farmer at Barnetby le Wold, near Brigg.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
June 9th 1843
NARROW ESCAPE - Mr F H Atkinson of Brigg, accompanied by Mrs Barraclough were driving on the Bigby road, on their way to the examination of the Sunday school children at Caistor, on Wednesday morning last; in descending the hill about three miles from Brigg, the shaft of the gig broke in two, precipitating the parties with great force into the road, we are happy to say without serious injury.
LINCOLNSHIRE CHRONICLE
June 21st 1843
CAISTOR - On Tuesday last, an inquest was held at Grasby, before Mr Marris, coroner, on the body of John Wilmore, aged three years, the son of John Wilmore labourer. It appeared by the evidence that the child had been suffering from cold and cough; and that on the previous night its mother obtained from a neighbour two teaspoonsfull of a powerful opiate, which she administered to the child. In the night it was discovered to be very ill, and the father went to Caistor to procure the attendance of Mr Smith, surgeon, but before he arrived the child was dead. Mr Smith having obtained from the incautious neighbour the remainder of the opiate, proved to the jury that the quantity administered contained no less than three grains of opium, a dose decidedly poisonous to a child of tender years unaccustomed to its use. The coroner and jury animadverted strongly on the conduct of the neighbour who furnished the mixture, and a verdict of inadvertent poisoning was returned.
(Continued on page 9)
|
|
