The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-15 00:00:00

SHOCKING CRINOLINE FATALITY.

Dr. Lankester, the Coroner for Central Middle-
sex, held an inquest at the Bank of England Tavern,
Cambridge-place, Paddington, yesterday, touching
the death of Mrs. Sarah Padley, 18 years of age,
residing at 6, Buckicgham-terrace, Bayswater,
which took place under melancholy and shocking'
circumstances.
Thomas Spencer, a lodger at 6, Bucking has:l
race, deposed that on Sunday at 11.20 a.in.hhre3l,iitoaeorrii:
room
onthe
deceased in a mass
ncrteoamthseirsosouminganfdrom a ro
foundthe
of flames.
ufldra ran
es. He seized a piece of carpet from the floor
and enveloped her in it, and threw h
w
ing ; by that means he succeed er upon the land-
ed
the fire before life was quiteed in extinguishing
extinct, but not until
every particle of her wearing
was completely consumed.apparel exeepther boots
The helpless creature's
body was frightfully burned all over. Two rooms
enn
were set on fire in
, --sequence, and on the arrival
of the husband u
(whofl was absent at the time) directly
afterwards,
the rooms,doing so,
and by diligent efforts soon succeeded in
Maria MIIBOI3, a young sister of deceased, said she
Was wearing at the time a muslin dress, extended by
crinoline, and having occasion to cross the room the
Iskirt of the dress got ignited from the fire in a
grate. The flames spread rapidly before assistance
arrived.
The coroner said it was, as he feared, one of those
numerously distressing casualties from the use of
the dangerous crinoline. Such cases were much
more numerous than the public generally supposed,
because, being now so common, many of themwere
never reported in the public journals. If every fatal
crinoline accident were reported the
public would
know of them, and then he felt assured that crino-
line, the modern and often fatal nuisance of society,
would soon be abandoned,
suggestion of
The jury, acting upon the the coro-
ner, returned a verdict of 4, Accidental death,
through wearing crinoline."

was a great flocking
FIFTY YEARS AGO.—There
into the army and navy on
to the troublesome
public schoolboy, the prince of hall classes—from the
cottage lad, who sooner or later went
by
no means regretted
off to sea, wept by his mother, the
part
w ee n t of
field,
fora a soldier, or ran
was a great deal of smuggling
by the neighbours.
poaching. There was a good
in those days,
breaking of threshing-ma-
counties, and of power-looms in the
deal of riotnganodceric°h7airare(l)3l
chines in agricultural
districts : but a commoner safety-valve
There was less netting and snaring
was poacbbing-
manufacturing
now, and more shooting. This was
of game
t tanemptation. It is now the great temptation
part of the
to the slaughter of small birds of which we are
coniPlaining under our present plague of slugs,
ell.
caterpillars, and wire-worms. Not only boys but wI
like the excuse for popping off guns : and hence t
extir-
pation of many useful birds Which we may
never
of
stored. If the village butts and universal
ad the general
archery old
j:j3 see re-
England had existed now, or if we now
had the
will see,
ai
practice with weapons Which another
gen been devouring
e
our small birds would at this moment
have
the moderate quantity
of caterpillars! which would LAW
made their appe4 IF-04.
ttranve.-01"