1878
A BOY DROWNED IN A WELL.—On Monday the County Coroner, T. T. Delasaux., Esq., held an inquest at the Palm Tree Inn on the body of William Thomas Keeler, aged seven years, who was drowned by falling down a well. It appeared that the mother of the deceased went out for a few minutes and left the deceased in charge of two other children, one three years old and the other twenty-three days. On her return the deceased was missing, and on going to the well she saw him at the bottom. She immediately called assistance, and Charles Fagg and Charles Stokes came, and the latter went down, but the rope being rotten broke, and he was nearly drowsed. Another rope was obtained, and Stokes succeeded in bringing the deceased up, but he was then quite dead. There were from forty to fifty feet of water in the well, and when the deceased was first seen by Fagg he was alive, and answered him. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 11 May 1878
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