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The Australian - Friday 9 August 1844 Page 3WINDSOR.
(From the Hawkesbury Courier.)
Awful Death.— An inquest was held yesterday noon, at the Currency Lass, Bridge street, Windsor, before J. Dowe, Esq., coroner of the district, on tho bodv of Mrs. Elizabeth Cross, wife of Mr. William Cross, innkeeper, of this town. From the evidence, it appeared that on Tuesday night, at about half-past nine o'clock, the servant, on going to bed, discovered the room in which her mistress slept was in flames ; she immediately called out "master, master !" and Mr. Cross ran up stairs and rushed into the room, but from the smoke and flames, he was unable to see anything. On feeling in the bed, he found his wife was not there, but at length discovered her under the bed, dreadfully burned. Life was not quite extinct, but by the time she was carried downstairs, she had breathed her last. Deceased
had been for some time laboring under sickness, and was so debilitated as scarcely tobe able to walk; and it was conjectured that, having got out of bed, she had shifted the candle from the place in which it had been left, viz. on a double wash-stand, nearer to the bed ; and that after getting into bed again, the curtains must have caught fire, and deceased being too feeble to cry out,
had crawled, under the bed, to avoid the flames, which probably communicating to some dirty clothes underneath the bed, prevented her escape, and she was
thus burned. Mr. Surgeon Bell, her medical attendant, having certified that the
burns were sufficiently extensive to cause death, the jury certified that deceased met her death accidentally, by being burned.
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