The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-29 00:00:00

FATAL ACCIDENT IN A MILL.

Last evening, at the Manchester Royal Infirmary
Mr. Chapman held an inquest on the body of a young
woman, named Frances Kenyon, nineteen years of age,
whose death was occasioned by injuries received from
machinery, in the mill of Messrs. Watkin and Lees,
cotton spinners, Dukinfield.
Robert Wrigley, overlooker in the mill, stated, that
the deceased was a weigher in the blowing-room, and
had been employed in the mill about eighteen months.
On the afternoon of the lith instant, witness was re.
pairing one of the blowing machines at which the de
ceased was employed, when, hearing a shriek, he
looked round, and saw her with her left hand fast be-
tween two cog-wheels attached to the same machine.
He threw the wheels out of geer as soon as possible
and liberated her ; after which Mr. Orme, surgeon,
dressed her injured hand, and next day she was con-
veyed to the infirmary. She was the only person
blameable, as she had nothing to do except to weigh the
cotton for the person feeding with it. The wheels were
not boxed off, though they easily might be. There
were none boxed off in the room. Four or five years
ago a female was caught in the same manner, and died
in the infirmary. There had been new machinery put
up since then, and the new was more dangerous than the
old.
Jane Pollitt, a female employed in the same mill,
stated that the deceased was caught whilst cleaning the
machinery, which she had no right to do until it had
stopped. It was nearly tea time when the accident hap-
pened, and the deceased was in a hurry to get to her tea.
Her duty was to clean the machinery when it stopp. d at
tea time.
Mr. Tomlinson, house surgeon to the Infirmary, stated
that the deceased was admitted on the forenoon of the
18th instant. The fore finger of her left hand had been
amputated, and there was compound fracture of the
middle and laceration of the two other fingers. Lock-
jaw ensued on the 23d, and she died on the morning of
Thursday last. The injuries to the hand were the cause
of death.
The Coroner said, in this case, he conceived the jury
would have to lay a deodand upon the machinery. He
did not know that very large deodands were of any great
service. The main object of imposing deodands was to
make it compulsory upon parties to place their machinery
in such a state as not to be dangerous to the people em
played about it.
Several of the jurors expressed a strong opinion as to
the impropriety of allowing the machinery to remain un-
covered ; and eventually a verdict of "Accidental death"
was returned, accompanied with a deodand of 101. upon
the machinery.—Manchester Guardian of Saturday.

TUE STATE OF AGRICULTURE.—At the last annual
rent audit of Lord Hill, at Hawkstone, Shropshire, his
Lordship, through his agent, Mr. George Gill; stated that
the time had now arrived when it was absolutely neces-
sary to render every possible assistance to the farmer.
With the view of attending to their welfare, he had
offered his tenants a lease for eleven years, at a reduc-
tion of from seven to ten per cent., which would give
them a sufficient opportunity of improving the cultiva-
tion of their farms, and of reaping the benefit of those
improvements ; and further added, that if at any period
they found the system of granting leases was not bene-
ficial to the full extent they calculated upon, he would at
once cancel their leases, and receive them as yearly
tenants as heretofore. This announcement was received
with loud applause'by his Lordship's tenants.
THE ROTHSCHILDS.—I mentioned the Rothsehilds,
which reminds me that Frankfort is the stronghold of
the Jewish race. The " peopulsh" abound here, there
being one quarter of the town almost exclusively occu-
pied by them. They are very much despised, but, of
course, Rothschild himself is regarded as King of the
country. His wealth is so enormous that he acknow-
ledged, not long ago, it was more than he could count.
Some idea may be formed of the wealth and influence of
the family when I tell you that they have already pur-
chased so much property in the place that the Senate of
Frankfort not long since passed a law expressly to
forbid their buying one inch more ground in
the territory of Frankfort, fearing that they
would buy up the whole state, and sell it to
Russia! The old fellow lives in grand style and
occasionally gives large parties. Each lady, on her
arrival, finds a pair of gloves and white satin shoes ready
for her acceptance, and dress shoes and gloves are also
prepared for each gentleman that may be invited. Roths-
child and his brother, Charles, have each a town house
and a country house at Frankfort ; bat the inhabitants
of Frankfurt call a country house one that is situated
just outside the city gates. For instance, the country
house of the elder Rothschild is not more than a quarter
of a mile from Bockenheimer-gate, is by the roadside,
and surrounded by a garden. Charles Rethschild's villa
is still nearer the town, and has a grass lawn in front.—
Correspondence of the B: ighlon Herald.
TEST OF AGE.—At the inquest which was held
last Monday, by Mr. Wakley, at the Elephant and Castle,
St. Pancras, on the body of a female unknown, that was
taken out of the Regent's Canal, in reply to a question from
Mr, Wakley, Mr. Cooper, the house surgeon of St. Pancras
workhouse, said that he could not positively state the age
of deceased, but that from appearances he judged she was
about twenty years old. Mr. Wakley asked if he could not
tell a person's age from the teeth ? Mr. Cooper said that
he could do so to the age of fifteen, but that after that
period it would be difficult. Mr. Wakley was of a contrary
opinion, a ii thought that, with a little attention, the age
of'anY petson could lie ascertained from the appearance of
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