Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
8th July 1837
Narrow Escape
An accident, which might have been attended with fatal consequences, occurred on Monday evening, to a little girl about six years old, the daughter of Mr. W. Wright, of High-street, in this town.
The female servant, it appears, had taken the children out for a walk, and had called upon a relative in Bier-lane; while there the child in question went up stairs with her younger brother to the second floor,
and on looking out of the window on the stairs leading to the third floor, the frame gave way, and fell, together with the child, to the ground, a depth of 24 feet. The child was instantly taken up,
and carried home, where medical assistance was immediately obtained, but singular to say that, with the exception of a few trifling bruises, and notwithstanding she fell among the fragments
of broken glass, no other injury was sustained; the little boy was found up stairs after the accident, close by the opening. Immediately under the window is a spiked fencing, which had
not a clothes line been there, the child would in all probability fallen upon it.