The Cadeby Disaster – End of the Inquiry – Cusworth’s Pocketbook

December 1912

Mexborough and Swinton Times December 7, 1912

The Cadeby Disaster

End of the Inquiry

Cusworth’s Pocketbook

Proceeding Mr Robinson said that Cusworth was the man the rescue party were bringing out when one of their number lost his life. He (Mr Robinson) obtaining customers pocketbook found in the position of the bodies from 19 level to 133 level carefully marked.

Mr Redmayne: and from the sketches and descriptions in this book, you were you are unable by this means to produce two plans:

Plan A showing the position of the bodies of the first explosion and Plan B showing the position of the bodies of the second explosion? – Yes

He must have been a business-like man to have a noted all the bodies? – Yes; they were quite good sketches, and I verified them as well.

Mr Redmayne: Mr Redmayne: we are entitled, gentlemen, to visualise, as it were, the condition of affairs of the first explosion, and after the second.