On Friday, an inquest was held at Woodside before H CHURTON Esq. coroner for the southern division of the county of Chester, touching the death of Thomas DENT, a youth about seventeen years of age, who was scalded to death on Wednesday last, at the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Station in Birkenhead, by giving way of a cock attached to a stationary steam engine.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death
Yesterday week an inquest was held before P.F CURRY Esq. borough coroner, on view of the body of a fine child, named Thomas Low ROBINSON, son of Mr ROBERTSON Creswell-place, Burlington-street. It appeared that the clothes of the deceased accidentally caught fire while he was playing about the hearth on Wednesday week.
He was attended by Mr PENNINGTON, surgeon, but was so much burnt that he lingered until Wednesday night se’night, when he died.
The jury retuned a verdict of accidental death