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A Victorian Tale of Wretched Poverty and a Snowbound Death
The report recounts a destitute woman with torn clothes and filthy habits near a deceased person’s estate, revealing three handwritten wills totaling charity for a school and various securities worth £4300. It covers a coroner’s inquest into William Salmon’s frozen death after a snowstorm and a shipboard sea monster sighting, with multiple local incidents including a fatal medicine error, theft and ransom notes, a boiler explosion, and a dramatic escape from Gloucester Bridewell during severe frost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charity School
Midland Railway
Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Railway
Thomas Hills
West Kent
Stoke
William Salmon
Abeona
Liverpool
Bath
Tristram Whitter
Lansdowne Crescent
Wood
Steele
Whitter
Robert Gane
Knowsley
Exeter
Agane
Darlaston Green
Staffordshire Advertiser
GloucestEe and Osan Forest Railway
Hereford
Lloyd's
Grimsby
Donna Nook
Saltfleet
Penelope
Hull
Herman
Lowestoft
Flamborough Head
Bridlington Bay
Trieste
Diana
Swansea
Cambridge
Littlehampton
Victory
Babington
Africa
Bristol
Lamboy Island
Tayleur
Biremine Ham
Messrs
Lilley
Unity Fire Office
Gloucester Bridewell
Ann Laughton
Laughton
Bridewell
Newnham
Gloucester
Fata
Burnt Mill
Broxbourne
Penzance
S.E
Concord
Swift
St. Ives
Maria
Jasper
Porthleven
Nile