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Jonathon Hall
| Age: | 15 |
| Died: | 20th May 1845 |
| Accident: | 7th Apr 1845 |
| Year Born: | abt. 1830 |
| Colliery: | Coxhoe, Charles Pit |
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| Notes: | fight underground |
| Buried: | [not known] |
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An inquest into the death of 15 year old Jonathon Hall took place on 21 May It appeared that on Monday the 7th April last the deceased, and some other lads had been quarrelling in the Charles pit, Coxhoe Colliery; deceased went to Low Down Broken Flat and asked some men to go with him to the place where the lads were at work and see fair play; the men shortly afterwards followed him, and on arriving there observed a lad named Abraham Hutchinson struggling with deceased on the ground and biting his nose; they were then separated, and the men and lads sat down for about two or three minutes when Hutchinson struck deceased on the head with an iron bar rail which knocked him down on his side, and the blood flowed out on the right hand side of his head above his eye; his head was tied up by two of the men, and he was taken home, and Mr. Carnes, surgeon, was sent for, who, on the following day, examined his head and found a large fracture of the skull, on the right side above the eye, and a piece of bone about an inch long and nearly the same breadth pressing upon the brain. Mr. Carnes raised the piece of bone and took it out, and put deceased under the usual treatment, but suppuration of the brain having commenced, he gradually got worse, and died on Tuesday morning last. Hutchinson, immediately after the blow was struck, was charged with doing it, and although he did not directly admit that he had done it, he began crying and said it was a bad job, and he could not help it, but was sorry for what he had done. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Hutchinson, and the Coroner issued his warrant for his commital to gaol.
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- Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).
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