East Ruston
An inquest was held on Saturday in this parish, before Mr. R. T. Culley , deputy coroner, on the body of Samuel Appleton, a higgler, belonging to the adjoining parish of Honing. Early on Friday morning the deceased was found dead in the road under his cart, which was turned bottom upwards, the pony having apparently broken away, leaving a few portions of harness attached to the cart. On the previous day deceased had been on his rounds, and left Stalham in a homeward direction, between eight and nine o’clock, the worse for drink. He was met in Ruston between nine and ten o’clock, driving very fast, by a witness who called out to him, and thus avoided a collision. A short distance further on it was clearly visible where one of the wheels had gone over the thorns of the bank, and thus upset the cart. A neighbour, who was going to bed about the same time, heard a pony galloping fast without a cart attached. Two young men, who were going home about twelve o’clock on the Thursday night, saw the cart lying bottom upwards, but they took no heed of the matter, and raised no alarm. The jury, after censuring their conduct, returned a verdict of “Accidental death.”
(Norwich Mercury - Saturday 30 November 1867)
An inquest was held on Saturday in this parish, before Mr. R. T. Culley , deputy coroner, on the body of Samuel Appleton, a higgler, belonging to the adjoining parish of Honing. Early on Friday morning the deceased was found dead in the road under his cart, which was turned bottom upwards, the pony having apparently broken away, leaving a few portions of harness attached to the cart. On the previous day deceased had been on his rounds, and left Stalham in a homeward direction, between eight and nine o’clock, the worse for drink. He was met in Ruston between nine and ten o’clock, driving very fast, by a witness who called out to him, and thus avoided a collision. A short distance further on it was clearly visible where one of the wheels had gone over the thorns of the bank, and thus upset the cart. A neighbour, who was going to bed about the same time, heard a pony galloping fast without a cart attached. Two young men, who were going home about twelve o’clock on the Thursday night, saw the cart lying bottom upwards, but they took no heed of the matter, and raised no alarm. The jury, after censuring their conduct, returned a verdict of “Accidental death.”
(Norwich Mercury - Saturday 30 November 1867)
East Ruston
An inquest was held on Saturday in this parish, before Mr. R. T. Culley , deputy coroner, on the body of Samuel Appleton, a higgler, belonging to the adjoining parish of Honing. Early on Friday morning the deceased was found dead in the road under his cart, which was turned bottom upwards, the pony having apparently broken away, leaving a few portions of harness attached to the cart. On the previous day deceased had been on his rounds, and left Stalham in a homeward direction, between eight and nine o’clock, the worse for drink. He was met in Ruston between nine and ten o’clock, driving very fast, by a witness who called out to him, and thus avoided a collision. A short distance further on it was clearly visible where one of the wheels had gone over the thorns of the bank, and thus upset the cart. A neighbour, who was going to bed about the same time, heard a pony galloping fast without a cart attached. Two young men, who were going home about twelve o’clock on the Thursday night, saw the cart lying bottom upwards, but they took no heed of the matter, and raised no alarm. The jury, after censuring their conduct, returned a verdict of “Accidental death.”
(Norwich Mercury - Saturday 30 November 1867)
An inquest was held on Saturday in this parish, before Mr. R. T. Culley , deputy coroner, on the body of Samuel Appleton, a higgler, belonging to the adjoining parish of Honing. Early on Friday morning the deceased was found dead in the road under his cart, which was turned bottom upwards, the pony having apparently broken away, leaving a few portions of harness attached to the cart. On the previous day deceased had been on his rounds, and left Stalham in a homeward direction, between eight and nine o’clock, the worse for drink. He was met in Ruston between nine and ten o’clock, driving very fast, by a witness who called out to him, and thus avoided a collision. A short distance further on it was clearly visible where one of the wheels had gone over the thorns of the bank, and thus upset the cart. A neighbour, who was going to bed about the same time, heard a pony galloping fast without a cart attached. Two young men, who were going home about twelve o’clock on the Thursday night, saw the cart lying bottom upwards, but they took no heed of the matter, and raised no alarm. The jury, after censuring their conduct, returned a verdict of “Accidental death.”
(Norwich Mercury - Saturday 30 November 1867)
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