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Old 09-09-2012, 22:07   #44
spw
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Re: ST JAMES CHURCH Accrington

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A little about Edmund. He was a collier who lived at Fig Pie Hall. He died shortly after receiving injuries during a ‘general scuffle’ outside a beer shop after intervening in an argument over a ferret. An inquest returned a verdict of Manslaughter. One William Grimshaw was subsequently tried and acquitted at Lancaster Assizes.
I have attached a 'copy' of the report of the inquest published in the Blackburn Standard of 4th May 1853.
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