-
AllActivities Age Concern Anytime Fitness Gym Art Beauty Beer Of The Week Blog Business C2C Care Care Home Chalkwell Beach Charity Children Christmas Cinema City Status Cliffs Pavilion Cliffs Pavilion Cliffs Pavilion Review Cocktail Recipes College Community Competition Competitions Construction Coronation Coronavirus Covid 19 Dannielle Emery Design Easter Education Emma Smith Employment Emsella Chair Environment Essex Police Essex Police News Events Family Fun Fashion Festival Film Finance Fitness Food Food & Drink Football Fresh Face Pillow Company Gardening Hair & Beauty Halloween Harp Havens Hopsice Havens Hospice Havens Hospice Havens Hospice Press Release Havens Hospices Havens Hospices Havens Hospices News Health & Beauty Health & Fitness Historicaleigh History Holidays Housing Indian Indirock Indirock Jubilee Karen Harvey Conran Kids Kids Blogs Kids Competitions Kids Reviews Lady McAdden Legal Legal Eagle Leigh Folk Festival Leigh Library Leigh On Sea Leigh On Sea Finds Leigh Road Leigh Striders Leigh Town Council Leigh Town Council Press Release Leigh on Sea Leigh on Sea Sounds Leigh on sea Folk Festival Leigh on sea Town Council Leigh on sea news Lifestyle Little Red Panto LoS Shop London London Southend Airport London Southend Airport Los Shop Marathon Melinda Giles Mortgage Angel blog Mortgages Motherofalloutings Mughal Dynasty Mughal Dynasty blog Music My Mortgage Angel MyLoS NHS News News Newsletter Offers Other Outfit Of The Week Palace Theatre Parenting Parking Picture Of The Week Pier Politics Press Release Professional Property Property Of The Week RSPCA Ray Morgan Re:loved Recipes Recycling Restaurant Restaurant Review Restaurants Review Roads Rotary Club Royal Hotel Royal Hotel Southend Royal Visit Schools Seafront Shopping Show & Music Reviews Show Review Show Reviews Show Up Productions Shows & Music Shows & Music Review Shows & Music Reviews Southend Southend Airport Southend Airport Press Release Southend Airport Press Release Southend Borough Council Press Release Southend City Council Southend City Council Southend City Council Blog Southend City Council News Southend City Council Press Southend City Council Press Release Southend City Council Press Release Southend City Council blog Southend Council Press Release Southend Hospital Southend In Sight Southend In Sight Press Release Southend on Sea Southend on Sea City Council Press Release Southend on Sea City Council press release Southend on Sea city Council Press Release Southend on sea City Council Press Release Sport The Mortgage Mum Theatre Theatre Blog Theatre Review Theatre Review Theatre Reviews Transport Travel Village Green Volunteer Weddings What's On Whats On blog c2c news shopping
Historicaleigh: An Incredulous Jury
AN INCREDULOUS JURY
At an inquest in Leigh in 1878, a doubt was raised by the jury as to whether the subject of the inquiry was actually really dead! A brief adjournment had to be made for a post mortem examination. The deceased was James William Osborne, 58, fisherman. He was shrimping aboard a smack on the Thames, off Grays, when he appeared to become giddy, and fell down twice, the first time into the hold of the vessel. After the second fall he didn’t move again, and two or three surgeons who saw him declared him to be dead.
His usual medical attendant, Mr Jones of Leigh, gave evidence at the inquest. The foreman of the jury, Mr W Foster, said that he and other members of the jury were not at all certain that Osborne was dead, and they thought Mr Jones had better ascertain definitely. Mr Jones went and examined the body and on returning into the room, said that as far as he could see, life was extinct. There was but one other way of proving that the man was dead, and that was by post mortem examination.
The foreman, and other members of the jury said they would like to be certain. The inquest was then adjourned for an hour, and in the meantime Mr Jones made a post mortem examination. He stated, as a result, that he found the man to be quite dead, and the probable cause of death was congestion and inflammation of the brain. A verdict was returned in accordance with this evidence.
ADD A COMMENT
Note: If comment section is not showing please log in to Facebook in another browser tab and refresh.