PETERSFIELD
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday morning, the 10th inst., as one of the many parties in preparation for our Monday’s fair was about to begin breakfast, the teapot just filled, was unfortunately pulled down by, and the contents fell on the arms and into the bosom of, a child, 12 months’ old. The poor little sufferer lingered in great agony till Monday morning, when death terminated its sufferings. A coroner’s inquest was held the same evening, and the jury returned a verdict of ‟Accidental death.”
Hampshire Telegraph - Saturday 16 July 1859
PETERSFIELD
AGENT—Miss DUPLOCK
DEATH FROM SCALDING.—On Saturday evening last an infant about nine months old, belonging to one of the itinerant booth-keepers who had just arrived in the Square preparatory to the fair on Monday, was so severely scalded that it died on the following day.