ABSTRACT
A distressing accident took place on Saturday se’nnight [a period of seven days], as the detachment of the North York Militia were leaving Stafford for Litchfield:—As one of the baggage waggons was passing by the Hough, with several of the soldiers’ wives sitting on the gearing, the frame of the gearing broke, and several women fell. Among these was the wife of Serjeant Watson, with her first and infant child at her breast. She was encumbered with a soldier's cloak, and fell with her head between the fore and hind wheels, when the wheel going over her head, crushed it in a manner too shocking to be described, and caused her immediate death. She had held the child so firm to her breast in the fall, that it was taken up without having sustained any injury. A Coroner’s Inquest sat on the body, and returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
