Straightsmouth
Greenwich
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South Eastern Gazette, 22 November 1853.
Fatal Occurrence.
An inquest was held on Friday last at the "Druids’ Arms,"
Straitsmouth, Greenwich, before Mr. Carttar, coroner, on the body of
Mr. Wm, Hughesdon, aged 42, lately residing in New king-street,
Deptford. It appeared from the evidence that on the 24th October,
deceased and his wife were proceeding towards Limehouse, and on
crossing a thoroughfare near George’s Stairs, Grove-lane, across
which there is a tramway, leading to the Commercial docks, and on
which trucks are employed (the tramway being an incline from the
river-side) to convey bricks, one of the trucks came running along,
the breaks-man of which swore that he called out to the deceased,
who, it appears, succeeded in thrusting his wife back, but was
himself struck on the left arm, being forced along a considerable
distance, and when picked up the arm was found to be broken below
the elbow, and the hand, being almost entirely severed, merely
hanging by a piece of skin. He was at once conveyed on board the
Dreadnought, where the limb was amputated, and went on apparently
well until a few days before his death, when inflammation
supervened, and death took place yesterday week. The jury returned
their verdict that death resulted from deceased, being struck by a
truck, but as legal gentlemen were engaged to watch the proceedings
on both sides it is believed that the case will have to bo decided
in a court of law.
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Orr's Kentish Journal, 12 April 1862.
Inquest.
On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held at the "Druid’s Arms,"
Greenwich, on the body of a new-born infant, found in the Thames off
Greenwich, when an open verdict of "Found Still-born" was given.
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Orr's Kentish Journal, 3 May 1862.
Death from Want.
An inquest was held on Thursday, at the "Druids’ Arms," Greenwich,
on the body of Ann Croom, aged 58, who died from destitution, a man
named John Croom having been married and lived with her twenty-six
years, having had several children. Mr. Wates, the relieving
officer, having ascertained that the deceased had been previously
married at Kingston, Portsmouth, and that she had married Croom
while her other husband was living, he (Croom) at once forsook her,
and is now living in adultery with another married woman at 12,
Alfred-row, Roan-street, Greenwich. The coroner called him a
"vagabond," and said though a verdict of "Died from natural causes"
was returned, he would see if he could not be prosecuted.
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Orr's Kentish Journal, 30 August 1862.
Inquest.
An inquest was held before C. J. Carttar, Esq., coroner, at the
"Druid’s Arms," Greenwich, on Monday evening, on the body of a
female infant found dead on the banks of the Thames the previous
Friday. The verdict was "born alive, death caused from suffocation,
but by what means there was no evidence to determine."
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LICENSEE LIST
BLAGDEN William to Nov/1848
SPRULES Robert William Nov/1848-Nov/70
WHITE Robert (Robin) H Nov/1870-71+ (age 36 in 1871)
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