Gloucestershire towit;- an inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign
lady the Queen at the Parish of Stonehouse in the said County on the twenty
third day of August in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty six. Before John G Ball one of her majesties Coroners for the said county
on an inquisition taken on view of the body of Reuben Niblett on the oaths of
Henry Smith, Henry Hooper, Samuel Powell Lewis, Joseph Cooke, Matthew Neate,
William Salisbury, Charles Jefferies, Edward Stockwell, Joseph Cottle, Jacob
Latham, William Keen, and Thomas Strewson, Twelve good and lawful men of the
said county duly chosen and who being here and there july sworn and charged to
enquire on behalf of our said lady the Queen when, where and how and by what
means the said Reuben Niblett came to his death. on affirming their oaths say
that the said Reuben Niblett a Weaver of the age of fifty two years or
thereabouts on Saturday the Eight day of August not being sober fell twice on
certain weights and scales and afterwards when being drawn upon a truck by the
side of the canal was precipitated accidentally with the truck and the persons
pushing and drawing the same into the Stroud canal and by one or both of the
means aforesaid sustained such injury that he died at the same parish of
inflammation of the lungs and Pleura resulting therefrom on the twenty first
instant and so the jury do say that he accidentally came by his death in
witness thereof the said coroner and jurors have here unto set there hands and
seals on the day and year and at the place first aforesaid.
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