Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-07-07 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE FATAL 'ACCIDENT TO A BOY AT STALYBRIDGE. An inquest waaeld on Saturday afternoon at the Pine Apple lii, Kenworthyntreet, before F W. Johnson, coroicr, touching the death of Harry Eyres, of 26, Ken orthy-street, who died on the Thursday previous,through injuries received at a gymnasium at Casile Hall Schools. Edward Eyres, fhechanic, mid the deceased was his son, and he w six years of age. On Friday week he went to - tie Hall School, and when wit. noes returned at ht from his work he was told that the boy wak urt. The deceased was then unconscious, and len remained EO till the Wednesday following. Re then said that he had been swinging, and that;". big Rose and his brother and Teddy Hilton werf ushing him," bat he made no complaint against yof the boys. Dr. Crossley Sutcliffe attended dm. On Wednesday afternoon ti,, the deceased had aneveie fit, and another on 'Muniday forenoon, when he died. The deceased fell from a wall more Huila year ago, bat he was quite recovered from tha). John Henry Janksov, a lad eight years of age, said that on Frila.T. week he was with the deceased and some others underneath the schoolroom where the swings were. 'he deceased wasewieging from a single rope, when he let go with one of his hands and fell against the iron pillar. NJ one pushe, him at all. The two Roses were there, but they were not near thetleceased. ...  Joseph Ridyard,,the schoolmaster, said he was in the schoolroom oa the forenoon of Friday week, when he was told by some boys that Henry Byres had fallen and Mart himself in the bottom room. He went at once, and saw the deceased standing by the side oC the door, about six yards from the place where he had falljhn. As soon aa he got in the legs of the deceased seemed to give way, and he fell to 1 the ground. W. ess lifted him on to a form, and asked him where e had got hurt, and he put his hand to his head behind the right ear. He wanted to go home to Itto mother, and witness got a big boy to carry himfbome on his back. The witness explained that 1.140 gymnasium did not belong to the school, but that Friday being so warm he thought they woOld be better there than outside playing, and he aecordingly sent some of them in that room under tJe care of a Ipupil teacher. But that teacher bad :to come up to hini with a name for some returniat the time the accident happened. The rope on which the decessed had been swinging was a single one, and had been used for hand-overhand climbing, otd it only came to within four feet eight inches from the floor. The pay then viewed the place, and on their return they were: unanimously of opinion that the occurrence 69. d ; been purely accidental, but they recommended Matt the ropes should be immediately taken down, or tied up out of the reach of the children. Mr Ridyard said the recommendation would be carried out.  At Milltown, near Portadown, Ireland, on Mon. day, a man named Farquhar was kicked to death in a quarrel by • man named Skelton, who has absconded.  At Bammeraniith Police Court, on )1 onday, a young woman, named Elizabeth Koarle late in the service of Sir Adain Brittlestone, St. Giles, Bucks, was charged on her own confession :with the murder of the cook, named Parry, and WAS remanded.  As Kate Fletcher, aged 21, a servant residing at 117, Whitworth Road, Rochdale, ws, travelling in a train on Sunday from Rochdale to Oldham, near Shaw she leaned against the ,our of the carriage, which flew open, and she fell intc theta-foot way. She was so seve.ly injured trait she died aeon afterwards.  FATAL rt Al I.Wza ACCIDENT : NO ItRIS.