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Leicester Chronicle, February 6, 1869
Claybrook
Accidental Death ? On Monday, the lst inst., an inquest was held before J. Gregory, Esq., coroner, at Great Claybrook, on the body of Josiah Bassett, deceased, in the employ of Mr. Clarke, of Claybrook. From the evidence of Walter Stannage, a boy aged 12 years, who reside at Frowlesworth, it appeared that on Friday afternoon, the 29th ult., he and his brother were going to a field occupied by their father, and adjoining the road leading from Frowlesworth to Claybrook, to fetch two cows up, when the deceased overtook them as they were going up the hill with an empty wagon and three horses. He was walking by the side of the horses. He appeared half ?fresh?, as he staggered rather. He (witness) and his brother asked if they might ride, and deceased said, ?Yes, if you can get in.? They both got in the cart, and after that the deceased got on the shaft on the same side as deceased was driving, and stood upright on it. Almost as soon as he got on, the horses began to trot down hill. The deceased dropped his whip, and then fell across the shafts. Deceased shouted out to the horses, and they stopped, and he then called to some boys who were behind in the lane to bring him his whip, and they did so. Deceased then started the horses off again, and they got into a trot and went down the hill, and ran up against Mr. Wright?s gate, at Claybrook mill, and ran along close by the dyke side. Deceased then got on the shaft horse?s back to try to reach the bridle rein to stop it, when he rolled off on the far side, and both the wheels of the wagon went over him. The horses went on, and witness and his brother got out of the wagon and ran and told Mr. Wright, and he and one of his men went to the deceased. It appeared the wheels ran over deceased?s head and along his left arm, and death must have been instantaneous. Deceased was only 23 years of age. Verdict, ?Accidental death?.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1845 - 1869 (~ 23 years)