From the Maidstone Gazette and East Kent Courier, 9 November, 1830.

On Wednesday last as William Bassett, a carpenter, son of Mr. Bassett, landlord of the "Nevill Arms," in this town, was at work on a scaffold, he unfortunately lost his balance, and fell backwards to the depth of nearly 30 feet. he was taken up in a state of insensibility; but we are happy to say that he is not seriously injured by the full.

From the Kent and Sussex Courier, Wednesday 30 September 1874.

Awfully sudden death. Inquest. This day.

This Wednesday morning, Mr. L. G. Fuller, one of the Coroner's to Sussex, held an inquest, at the "Nevill Arms Inn," on the body of George Solomon Hyams, whose death occurred under the circumstances detailed in evidence.

Mr. Richard Wells was appointed foreman of the jury.

The body having been viewed the following evidence was taken.

Eliza Hyams deposed:- The deceased, who was named George Solomon Hyams, was my father, and he was a commercial traveller with jewellery. His home was at 33, St. James Street, Weston-super-Mare. He left home last Tuesday week on one of his journeys and was then apparently in good health. He used occasionally to complain of his breath being so bad, and of a difficulty in breathing. My father was a Jew, and was 49 years of age.

Richard Turner said:- I am an eating house keeper, and at a quarter past nine o'clock on Monday evening the deceased came in my house and asked whether I could accommodate him with a bed. I told him that I could not as I was full, but would try to get him accommodation at the next door. I left him standing at the end of the table in my coffee room, with his carpet bag and box on the table. When I returned I told him that I got him a bed, and he said he would take his things, and he went into the next door. I heard Mrs. Friend say, "What time will you be in," and deceased replied, and a joking way, "I shall be in sometime before four o'clock tomorrow morning." He also said, "I shall be in by ten; I am going into Mr. Turner's to have some supper." On his return to my house he sat down on the seat and ask for a cup of tea, to keep his lips from quivering for supper. I went to get the tea, and on my return he was lying on the table breathing hard. I thought he had gone to sleep, and tried to raise him. I lifted up his hands and head, and took his collar and necktie off. He did not speak, and I sent for Mr. Bisshopp. It was about a quarter past nine when he came to my house, and he died within 5 or 6 minutes of that time. He had slept at my house once before. He was a very cheerful sort of man. Mr. Bisshopp came immediately.

Mr. James Bisshopp, surgeon, stated that he was called to see the deceased at half past nine o'clock on Monday evening, and found him lying on the floor. Life was at that time extinct, and had been so for from 5 to 10 minutes. He made a post mortem examination the following evening, about 20 hours after death. There were no marks of violence, and death had resulted from heart disease, which occasioned a sudden cessation of breathing. Mr. Marsack assisted him in making the post-mortem examination, and agreed with a report which he then presented, and which was signed by both medical men.

In reply to a juryman, Mr. Bisshopp said the stomach was perfectly empty, and there was no doubt that the deceased had gone without food in accordance with his usual custom, and that exhaustion had led to the cessation of breath.

The Coroner having briefly summed up the evidence, the jury returned as their verdict that the deceased died from heart disease.