Killed by a cobweb

Lisburn Herald & Antrim & Down Advertiser Saturday 23 April 1892

KILLED BY A COBWEB. Some peculiar evidence was given during an inquest held this week before the Liverpool Coroner touching the death of Martha Robarts. Six or seven weeks ago deceased cut her hand, and, to stop the bleeding, she adopted the housewife’s plan of using a cobweb. Blood poisoning set in-presumably because there was dirt on the cobweb-and the woman died. The doctor stated that death was due to blood poisoning arising from the wound on the hand, and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with this evidence.

Shocking accident

Northampton Mercury Friday 29 July 1904

LILLINGSTONE DAYRELL. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. On Friday a shocking accident happened to Henry Harris, groom, in the employ Mr. A. J. Robarts, Tile House, Buckingham. The man lives at the lodge, and he was given a "lift" in Mr. Reynolds's grocery wagon. Whilst the man in charge of the wagon had gone into a house Harris attempted to knock the flies off the horses. The horses started off, and he fell between the spring and the wheel, and one of his legs was so caught that it acted as a brake on the wheel, with the result that before the horses could be stopped the wheel had ground off the whole the fleshy part of the calf the leg, and he presented a shocking appearance.