The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-09 00:00:00

A CHILD BURNT TO DEATH AT

ULANVILLE'S WJO IT .N

A little girl named Beatrice Mary Ball, only it re yetra
end a-half old, War WO(Ilt to death on F. it is last, at
Glanville's Wootton, under very piinlul chr,ll.tance4, es
will be seen by the evidence oven at the it.0.1.-nt on Mon-
day. before the Iteputy-Corowr (11r. If. Sym
The following were /Worn on t'w leer : —Me IWP. ChArlaa
idwr.e RI lout, Clinger
Gould (foremen), John Waal'',
Waygood, William Downton, Samuel Jeanie. Thomas
Short, Thomas Trent, Robert Jeans-a, George Durant,
Robert Lock, and J.ha demise.
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Virginia Ball was first sworn, anti said she was tha wife
of Alfred Ball, end the decreasel wan her daughter. Ste
crag Wes years aod six months old. On Friday mereiny,
about tee eielvelr, witness wee rtroutiez. op the boom.
Ale wanted to tile' to souse el leash sere on the
beige In the aware drying, :mei sir- left the decessed
and $ younger child who wow strait tn years and flee I
mouths old. insole the beck kitchen, whieh was con-
nected with the trout bitch-o he 3 doorway. A Are was
borates on the hearth in the fleet ru, one ties•
was lett In the house. She se ye Irmo out shoot Gee
minutes, when she heard the Jemmied scream. Wan re
immediately went into the boos'. She thought the
children were merely ousrrellota. Si,.' went to the hick
doer. as the front was bolted, I. she fouul the ha •k i.i.o
bolted. The bolt c 414 ossify hey , teee slipped by .h.
children. She heard the doceasest e otau to the hick d
and endeavour to let bar in Miners saw the sopMu
through the bark window. Tne "rim meet warn screams - a
at the time. Witness then rut ms nod to the front wind.. •
and saw the deceased et reeling on severities. with h r
clothes entirely hunt • ff. The oth..r elohl was itt riding
some way off, &video, iv very frightens". %%lbw. broke
• pans of glue, opined the window, snil got through The
only thine that !MA O% her we. the hand of ka cwt.o a,
and that fell swot aft rw ,ran. W itnevit left her Pitting in
the corner, and then ran for emistanor. She went to one
of her neighbours And asked hr to *end for her husband.
Witness met a tuao f.,.. vv. i.oetor, and thee went Sohn's.
Old. She thin r totted hi Ihe It man air, found
Or
haehaed there, tee, Is ei taken the ehild up. The dweea....a
was a child t .ith 11re; •n I witness thoo.rht
she meld trust ber ....1 oklor rhil.l for afe mlnut.s.
The child's skin •se Isirait all over. She 1k5...1 tall tw,.•
O'clock, aml wan present when she died. Mr.
Beardeu (Mr. hii..Every • • eicaut) arrived clout half-put
opened applied oil. 'I he child use sees Pile to the hist
Annabelle Ohl arid she we. the wife of Thom., Old mad
resideil In that tsr sh. On 7ndley shortly aft -r tea
o'clock Ker. Ball rame to her boom aril sel I her child ems
hetet to des.h. She went to the house snit on 1.. r
saw 114 r. Bill with the deceased in his rot-. Witeems
took bet from bins and wrapped her in hi r sperm, is e ,
thee sited Mrs. Italic's se t her a shot total rokool tsar
and Mi. did res. All the child'. cl.thes w,14. hernia. She
wee very moan burnt ell ewer the body excepting the I.e.
and the feet. She wan quite seesilde and with.. herd
bar tell her tsther that ahe hal taught eq. clothes he the
ire. She asked for something to drink, but she heard her
Witless was wit t her when the
doctor cense, ~ remained with her tell shout See
Minot. a tselore be r death. Front the first It we. esiiiet, sly
4....0,1‘, that eh.. waalki ever ree.iver, and the doctor
Bad c' t no hares whsteve
The I' troliar hll,ll/1•1110111.V1 no and called the stt-ntim
of the jtry to I h.. ..I!ent po n.. the evidence,
The Jury rit erne Its verdw, of "Ac, idental death from
burning."