The Nineteenth-Century Coroner in England and Wales Volume III: Causes of Death

Volume III: Causes of Death

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Table of Statutes and Cases

General Introduction

Volume III Introduction

Part 1: Inquests in the Headlines

1. ‘Observations upon the Inquest at Oldham, over the Body of John Lees’, The Cap of Liberty, 1:6 (1819), p. 91

2. A Tale Founded on Fact (London: Knight and Lacey, 1828) (extracts)

3. S. Bamford, Passages in the Life of a Radical, vol. 2 (London: J. Haywood, c.1843), pp. 23–25

4. A. Somerville, The Autobiography of a Working Man: By ‘One Who Has Whistled at the Plough’ (London: Charles Gilpin, 1848), pp. 293–299

5. An Account of the Great Fire and Explosion Which Occurred in Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead on the 6th of October 1854 (London: Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co. 1854), pp. 72–77

6. ‘The Wreck of the Royal Charter’, The Saturday Review, 10 December 1859, pp. 703–04

7. ‘The Brighton Railway Accident’, Brighton Gazette, 5 September 1861, p. 4

8. W. Naylor, Analysis of Evidence Before the Sheffield Jury on the Cause of the Failure of the Bradfield Reservoir (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1864) (extracts)

9. W. M. Wilkinson and others, The Cases of the Welsh Fasting Girl and Her Father: On the Possibility of Long-Continued Abstinence from Food (London: J. Burns, 1870), pp. 7–10

10. ‘Charles Bravo Inquest’, House of Commons Hansard Sessional Papers, Third Series, vol. 229, Parliament, col. 917–999, Vict. 39 (1876)

11. R v Carter, Law Journal Reports, 45 (1876), pp. 711–712

12. ‘The Princess Alice Disaster’, Manchester Guardian, 1 October 1878, p. 5

13. ‘The Double Assassination’, Derry Journal, 8 May 1882, p. 4

14. G. H. M. Read, Lines on the Terrible Disaster Which Occurred in the Victoria Hall, Sunderland, in Which Nearly 200 Children Were Killed on Saturday, June 16, 1883 (np, 1883)

15. E. M. Shaw, Report to The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department Concerning the Fire Which Occurred in the Theatre Royal Exeter on the 5th of September 1887 (HMSO, 1888) (extracts)

Part 2: Homicide

16. G. E. Male, Elements of Juridical or Forensic Medicine; For the Use of Medical Men, Coroners and Barristers (London: E. Cox and Son and Henry Butterworth, 1818), pp. 7–19; 185–199

17. J. Jervis, A Practical Treatise on the Office and Duties of Coroners (London: S. Sweet, 1829), pp. 110–113

18. J. Jervis, A Practical Treatise on the Office and Duties of Coroners (London: S. Sweet, 1829) (extracts from appendix of proforma verdicts)

19. ‘Termination of the Inquest at Shadwell’, The Working Man’s Friend; and Political Magazine, 32 (1833), p. 253

20. J. Chitty, Practical Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence (London: Henry Butterworth, 1834), pp. 351–352

21. Letter to the Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne Regarding the Death of a Boy Named Phillips on Board the Anna Sophia (1840)

22. ‘The Murder Near Queen-Square’, Evening Mail, 26 November 1858, p. 7

23. Tables of the Various Kinds of Violent Deaths in England and Wales 1852-56 with Observations on the Coroners Returns (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1858), pp. 21–28

24. ‘Manslaughter’, Norfolk Chronicle, 30 April 1859, p. 7

25. W. B. Ryan, Infanticide; Its Law, Prevalence, Prevention, and History (London: J. Churchill, 1862), pp. iii-iv, 1-44

26. J. T. Hoyle, Printed Circular to the Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne on Infanticide (1865)

27. W. G. Standfast, Poisoners and Slow Poisoning (London: John Dicks, 1865), pp. 56–67

28. ‘Child Murder in Liverpool’, Liverpool Daily Post, 14 February 1868, p. 7

29. 'The Great Disaster on the Thames - The Inquest at Woolwich Town Hall', The Illustrated London News, 21 September 1878, p. 282

30. ‘The Bristol Baby Farm’, Bristol Times and Mirror, 25 August 1879, p. 3

Part 3: Industrial Accidents

31. Circular to Convene a Society for the Prevention of Accidents in Coal Mines (Sunderland: J. Graham, 1813)

32. Broadside of Inquest Held on Account of a Dreadful Accident at Staw-Gate Pit, May 30 (Newcastle: W. Boag, 1826)

33. G. Fife, A Critical Analysis of the Evidence Adduced at the Inquest Occasioned by the Late Explosion at Wallsend Colliery (Newcastle upon Tyne: Currie and Bowman, 1835) (extracts)

34. Inquest on the Wharncliffe-Carlton Colliery Explosion, Barnsley, 1884 pp. 1–5

35. W. N. Atkinson, Report on the Hyde Colliery Explosion, 1889. Command Paper C.5787 (extracts)

36. H. D. Greene, Inquest Arising out of the Llanerch Colliery Explosion, 1890. Command Paper C.6098 (extracts)

37. J. Martin, Report on the Malago Vale Colliery Explosion, 1895. Command Paper C.7727 (extracts)

38. G. W. Alcock, The Life of John H. Dobson, Ex-Organiser National Union of Railwaymen (London: Kings Cross Publishing, 1921), pp. 68-9

39. S. Webb and B. Webb, ‘The Truth about Employers’ Liability’, The Progressive Review, 4 (1897), p. 341

Part 4: Miscellany

40. ‘Inquests: Death of Mrs Charlotte Phillips-Finchley’, London Courier and Evening Gazette, 9 September 1829, p. 4

41. ‘Death of Mrs Phillips of Finchley’, The Lancet, 1 (1829), p. 84

42. Society for the Superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys (London: A. Macintosh, 1833) (extracts)

43. ‘Inquest on the Late Master Paul Dombey’, The People’s Press, 1:3 (1847), p. 74 (reprinted from The Man in the Moon).

44. Coroners’ Inquests: Abstract Return of the Number of Coroners’ Inquests Held in Each of the Years 1851, 1852, 1853 (Parliament, 1854–55), House of Commons Papers, no. 89

45. ‘Death of a Lady from an Overdose of Laudanum’, Daily News, 14 February 1862, p. 6

46. ‘The Late Sir Charles Lyell’, The Times, 27 February 1875, p. 5

47. ‘Death from the Administration of Chloroform’, The British Medical Journal, 2:1129 (1882), p. 334

48. ‘Knicknacks’, Fun, XL (1884)

49. ‘‘Jack the Ripper’ at Birmingham’, Police and Public, 2 November 1889, p. 6

50. W. Morris, ‘Alfred Linnell: Killed in Trafalgar Square, November 20, 1887: A Death Song’, (London: Richard Lambert, 1887)

51. ‘Football Fatalities’, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 4 January 1888, p. 6

52. R. S. Surtees, Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks’s Hunt (London: Bradbury, Agnew and Co., 1890), p. 327

53. ‘Death of a Child at Bagthorpe Gaol’, Nottinghamshire Guardian, 5 November 1898, p. 8

54. S. Ingleby Oddie, Inquest (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1941), pp. 13–14

55. ‘Deputy to a Royal Coroner’, Liverpool Daily Post, 25 March 1941, p. 2

Glossary

Index

Biography

Dr Helen J. Rutherford is Associate Professor in Law at Northumbria University Law School, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.