Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
14th June 1834
ANOTHER DREADFUL ACCIDENT
Henry Curties, an apprentice to Mr.Cooper,painter, &c, Windsor, while
cleaning windows at the house of the Rev.Mr.Canning in the Cloisters, fell from a ladder, full 14 feet, and received
an extensive fracture of the skull. Medical was instantly rendered, but in the evening the unfortunate youth
was labouring under severe symptons of compression of the brain. The operation of trepanning was consequently
performed, and although many of the bad symptoms were removed, the case terminated fatally the next morning.
A coroner's inquest was held on the body, on Thursday evening, before R.Blunt Esq., mayor and coroner, and
a verdict of Accidental Death was recorded.
On Monday last an inquisition was held before John Slade, Esq at Clewer, on the body of Jane Ray, a child of the age
of three years, who in the absence of her mother, fell into a tank which supplied the premises with water, and was
drowned. Verdict accordingly.
This evening, about half-past seven o'clock, as Henry Brown, Esq , surgeon, of Windsor, was riding at a rapid rate
through the town, in order to avoid the rain, his horse fell at the top of Sheet-street, and threw him to the ground with
considerable violence. We have not heard the extent of the injury Mr.B. has received, but we fear he must be very
seriously hurt. The horse was much cut about.