The Poole Telegram. — 1881-04-29 (Poole, Dorset, England)

PORTLAND. PATAL .AOCIDENT TO A LAD.  Last Friday, about the m ddle of the day, a lad named , George Henry Framptou met with a eudden and shodking , death, in the road from the West Quarries. It appears 1 that he, with his father, was driving one of Mr. R .bert iomben's stone "ploughs," a ponderous vehicle weighing about two tons, and on it was a load of 5 tons 10 cwr. of stone. This was beiug di aan by eight horses, in singe tile, as usual, with the stone waggons. and Mr. Frampton was on one aide of the horses, and the lad on the other. The road from the West Quarries is exeeedingly rough and bad, the ruts being described as nearly deep enough to bury a men, and the shaft horde is liable to be jerked about most violently. The lad had only gone to work that week, and ii is supposed he must bare stumbled, for the father heard a shout, when the boy had fallen before the wheels, and endeavoured to otop the team. But he was not in time, the fore-wheel passed quite over the lad's head, and killed him immediately. The body was removed to Pluton. where the lad's father lives, immediately opposite the Delhi Arms, and the inquest was held there on Monday morning, before R. N. Howard, Rig., coroner, and the following jury :—Messrs. B Stone, W. Pearc F, Pearce, Joseph Hibbs, W. T. WelliP, E. Pearce, John Pearce. Oheilea Denham, George Downton, J. J. Edmunds, Ambrose Pearce. li. J. Stevens, and Mr. W. Coombe. ,1 foreman. The jury viewed the place. According to the evidence, it appeared that the boy, who was big for his age, was under.carter, and that he had been used to working with hordes for three or four years, although he had been out of work for about six months until lately. On 1 the day in question his father and he went about seven 1 o'clock in the morning, and made three or four trips with the stone cart. About half-past eight they were going from West Cliff to the Priory with a load of Stone 10 cwt., and the lad was just in front of the third horse on the near side, when he tripped up and fell int o a deep rut. and , although in falling he cried" Weigh r and his father, who was near, did the same—before the horse could be pulled up, the wheel went over part of his head, crushing and tearing it away in a frightful manner, and death was instantaneous. Dr. Mc Lean was called, and was on the spot immediately, having ordered a stretcher to be taken et once; but the poor lad was already dead. The road was a private one, used by the large stone merchants, for the purpose of conveying their stone to Priory, audit being everybody's work to repair it, the rseuit was that nobody did so, and none had been done for years, The jury were unanimous in considering the road was dangerous to both man and beast; in fact it was cruel to send horses there to work, and they wished the Coroner to convey their views to the leading stone merchants, in order that it may be altered. Some of the ruts, it was stated, were over two feet deep, and the boy, in order to walk alongside his hordes, had but a few inches to keep his footing, and that was on a descent. The Coroner drew attention to the fact that this case was not like that of a boy working with a stranger, but with his father, who would look after his interests. No doubt the road was in the-state the jury tnentionerl. They returned a verdict of "Accidental Death,' with a rider strongly disapproving of the state o• the road.  THE SUICIDE OF THE WARRIOffB