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John Bradshaw

Age: unknown

Sex: male

Date: 11 Jun 1902

Place: Wigston, Leicester

John Bradshaw fell out of a train at Wigston on 11 June 1902.

An open verdict was returned.

The inquest heard that he had fallen out accidently but another witness gave conflicting evidence and an open verdict was returned.

John Bradshaw had been one of about 100 workmen that had left Barrow-in-Furness on 8 June 1902 to take his Majesty’s ship Alfred to Portsmouth Dock. After handing over the ship a number of the men, including John Bradshaw, caught the 4.20 train back to Barrow-in-Furness on 10 June 1902.

A man that had been part of the group said that when he got on the train that he didn't see John Bradshaw until early next morning when he came along the corridor into the compartment where he and five of his friends were and said to him, 'You are wanted'.  He said that he went to John Bradshaw who then asked him for a cigarette and that he gave him a pipe and struck a match for him.

He said that John Bradshaw then walked to the lavatory but didn't go in but instead turned and walked back to the other end of the corridor, saying at the time, 'This isn't it'.  He said that he appeared to have lost his compartment but that as he was wandering up and down the corridor he came to one where three men were sitting.

He said that John Bradshaw stood in the doorway of the compartment opening into the corridor an then catching hold of a man that was sleeping there he told him to get up as someone wanted him. However, he said that as he was pulling at the man's coat that the carriage suddenly lurched and that John Bradshaw pitched forward from where he was standing against the door which then opened and let him through and onto the line.

The man said that he then raised the alarm and the guard came. He said that from the time that John Bradshaw came into his compartment until he fell out of the train was about seven or eight minutes. He said that he had had his coat off at the time but that he could not say whether his boots were off.

He said that there had been no quarrel as far as he knew and added that he didn't think that John Bradshaw had been a quarrelsome man.

He added that the window of the door through which John Bradshaw had fallen out of had been open and about three or four inches from the top.


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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Jersey Evening Post - Wednesday 18 June 1902

see Midland Mail - Saturday 21 June 1902