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  • Another Cadosch Inquest Witness

    I think that, as the incident was in Essex, and the name an unusual one, the witness here is likely to have been one of Albert Cadosch's sons, probably Fred who was closest in age to the boy who died:

    "THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO A LAD WHILST
    BIRDSNESTING - On Saturday July 14, the BOROUGH
    CORONER (Mr. A. E. Church) held an inquest at the
    Essex and Colchester Hospital on the body of Thomas
    Joseph Lepworth, aged 11, of Burlington Road, who
    was accidentally killed by falling off a tree on The
    Barn Farm, Malden Road, whilst birdsnesting on the
    previous Wednesday, as recorded in last week's Essex
    Courier Standard.Evidence was given that deceased
    and another boy, named Cadosh, ascended a tree after
    a nest. Deceased was on the bough on which the
    nest was, and shouted that he was near it, when he was
    seen to fall back, alighting on his head on the road
    over which the bough hung. It was stated that Cadosh
    was not larking with deceased, and that he did not
    push him. The distance deceased fell was 15 to 20
    feet. - Mr Percy Coleman, House Surgeon at the
    Hospital, said when deceased arrived at the Hospital
    he was profoundly unconscious and had an extreme
    compound fracture of the skull. Brain substance was
    escaping from one or two of the injuries. He con-
    sidered the case was hopeless from the first and the
    lad died on Friday morning. The Jury returned a
    verdict of "Accidental Death".
    It's from the "Essex Standard, West Suffolk Gazette and Eastern Counties Advertiser" dated Saturday 21st July 1894."

    (It's a variant spelling, but they featured heavily in the press where the Cadosch name is concerned).

    Regards, Bridewell.
    I won't always agree but I'll try not to be disagreeable.

  • #2
    And the following month:

    This (four weeks later) is from the Essex Newsman, dated Saturday 18th August 1894:



    PLAYING WITH MATCHES - On Friday night
    Nellie Cadosch, aged two years and three
    months, of 33, Stanwell Street, set her bed on
    fire while playing with matches. She was so
    badly burned that she had to be removed to
    the hospital".
    (Mercifully she survived).

    Regards, Bridewell
    Last edited by Bridewell; 12-07-2012, 09:21 PM. Reason: Indentation as original
    I won't always agree but I'll try not to be disagreeable.

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    • #3
      The Barn Farm, Malden Road,
      I'm grateful to Philip Walton for pointing out (on JtR) that it should be Maldon Road. I've also checked the original article and the farm was 'Tile Barn Farm. The error in both cases was mine although, in my own defence, it's a very poor typeface.

      Regards, Bridewell.
      I won't always agree but I'll try not to be disagreeable.

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