April 19th 1889
Child Drowned In A Slop Tub At Denaby.
On Saturday Mr. Dossey Wightman and a jury, of which Mr. H. Hall was the foreman, held an inquiry at the Reresby Arms, Denaby Main, touching the death of Eli Soar, a child one year and few months old, who drowned in a slop tub at her home in Dearne View, Denaby Main, on the previous ( Friday ) morning.
Eli Soar, a miner employed at Denaby, and father of the deceased, said his son was a year and six months old. He was a healthy child. Witness believed the child to have been accidentally drowned.
Esther Soar, 14 years of age, said deceased was her brother. The accident happened on the 12th April at 8 o´clock in the morning. Witness was in the house when it happened and her mother was ill in bed. There were a lot of brothers and sisters downstairs at the time, and her father had gone to work. When witness went into the kitchen, about three minutes after she had left the others, she found him in a small tub, which was used for keeping slops in. He was in head first, and was dead. The tub was on the ground, and there were about four inches of water in it. It was always kept on the ground. Washing up slops were put in the tub. Witness went and etched Mrs. Long. Deceased was in the back kitchen alone when he got in the tub. Witness was the oldest child present.
Mr. A.G. Meggitt said the tub would be easy for any child to get in, another juryman said he did not think it would be eighteen inches from the ground.
The Coroner : Is it alright officer ?
Police constable Midgley said there was no other evidence, but perhaps the jury would like to know that he found a small brush in the tub, which perhaps deceased had been reaching for when he overbalanced himself.
The Coroner : Or whilst putting it in. It is wonderful the number of children that get drowned in maidening tubs and things of that kind. They get playing with the water, and overbalancing themselves, fall in over the head in water so that they cannot make any noise. I don´t think we can make any more of it gentlemen.
The jury concurred, and returned a verdict of ” Accidental Death.”
On Saturday Mr. Dossey Wightman and a jury, of which Mr. H. Hall was the foreman, held an inquiry at the Reresby Arms, Denaby Main, touching the death of Eli Soar, a child one year and few months old, who drowned in a slop tub at her home in Dearne View, Denaby Main, on the previous ( Friday ) morning.Eli Soar, a miner employed at Denaby, and father of the deceased, said his son was a year and six months old. He was a healthy child. Witness believed the child to have been accidentally drowned.
Esther Soar, 14 years of age, said deceased was her brother. The accident happened on the 12th April at 8 o´clock in the morning. Witness was in the house when it happened and her mother was ill in bed. There were a lot of brothers and sisters downstairs at the time, and her father had gone to work. When witness went into the kitchen, about three minutes after she had left the others, she found him in a small tub, which was used for keeping slops in. He was in head first, and was dead.
The tub was on the ground, and there were about four inches of water in it. It was always kept on the ground. Washing up slops were put in the tub. Witness went and fetched Mrs. Long. Deceased was in the back kitchen alone when he got in the tub. Witness was the oldest child present.
Mr. A.G. Meggitt said the tub would be easy for any child to get in, another juryman said he did not think it would be eighteen inches from the ground.
The Coroner : Is it alright officer ?
Police constable Midgley said there was no other evidence, but perhaps the jury would like to know that he found a small brush in the tub, which perhaps deceased had been reaching for when he overbalanced himself.
The Coroner : Or whilst putting it in. It is wonderful the number of children that get drowned in maidening tubs and things of that kind. They get playing with the water, and overbalancing themselves, fall in over the head in water so that they cannot make any noise. I don´t think we can make any more of it gentlemen.
The jury concurred, and returned a verdict of ” Accidental Death.”