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West Briton, 24 November 1843 CORONER'S INQUEST On Monday last, at Calstock, on view of the body of
WILMOT[?] BATE, a little girl three years old. It appeared that the
mother left her in the kitchen about eleven o'clock, on Friday morning,
and had not been gone five minutes before her neighbours ran to her, and
said her child had caught herself on fire. She ran home, and found the
child so dreadfully burnt that she died on the following day. The
coroner remarked that this was the third inquest which had been holden
since last Thursday, on children burnt to death, all of whom were clad
in cotton dresses, which, if once ignited would be almost sure to prove
fatal to the wearer. Verdict. Accidental death. |