PETERSFIELD.
CORONER’S INQUEST.—On Saturday, the 24th instant, an inquest was held at the Jolly Sailor public house, in the parish of Buriton, before Edward Hoskins, Esq., coroner, and a respectable jury, touching the death of John Atkins, a child aged five years. When, after carefully investigating the several witnesses examined, they returned the following verdict:—‟That on the 26th day of November aforesaid, in the year aforesaid, in the parish aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, the said John Atkins while putting a potato between the bars of the grate, in which were embers there smouldering, it so happened his clothes caught fire, and inflicted injuries of his person, of which injuries he, in the parish and county aforesaid, did, on the 22nd day of December, die; and, therefore, we say that the said John Atkins accidentally, casually, and by misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise.”
Ancestry shows the burial of John Atkins on 27-Dec-1864
