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Date:	7th December 1844
Colliery:	Wingate Grange, Lady Pit
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Cause:	(See description below)
Lives Lost:	1
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On Saturday, 7 December, as a putter named Marshall was going towards a flat in the Lady Pit, Wingate Grange Colliery, with a tub of coals, he felt the tub rub against something and then, after passing, heard something fall down. He went back with his candle and found a ten year old putter, John Pratt, crushed between the tub and the wall, "with blood flowing in large quantities from his nose and mouth." The boy died shortly afterwards. A few minutes before the accident, Pratt had been reprimanded by a deputy-overman for not having a string for his door to enable him to open it without leaving his hole. A verdict of "Accidental death with a deodand on the tub of 1s." was recorded at the inquest

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Text kindly provided by Jim Grainger from his research into early newspapers (primarily the Durham Advertiser and Durham Chronicle).

	Pratt, John, aged 10, Putter, crushed between a tub and the wall
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