CORONER'S INQUEST.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 105, 4 May 1874, Page 2

CORONER'S INQUEST.

An inquest was held at Wakefield on Saturday before Dr Squires, the coroner, and a jury on ihe remains of Kite Wright, «ged 29 year*, who was burnt to death on the morning of the previous day. James Fowler said : About four o'clock on Friday morning I saw a light in the window of the house occupied by deceased. I thought she was getting her husband's breakfast ready. Two hours later the fire broke out through the kitchen window in a different part of the house to that where the remains were found. I alarmed my wife, and Mr Hooper and I ran to tbe fire and tried to knock the gable end in so as to get into the bedroom, but the smoke came through the boles we made, and we could see the flames iv the room. After a few minutes wo were able to see the remains of the deceased lying on the ground. The legs and the greater part cf the thighs seemed to be burnt away. I beard no cries, but had she called out I must have heard her. My opinion is that she was suffocated long before she was burnt. The house was destroyed about twenty minutes after I saw the fire break out. James Wright : I am working on the railway. Deceased was my wife. There were four rooms in the house, two upstairs and two down. On Thursday morning I left my wife to go to work, and did not intend returning until Saturday night. About 8 o'clock yesterday morning Mr Price came and told me what had happened. From what I have been told of the way in which the remains were lying lam sure she mu*t have been in bed when she died. The wood used for tho fire was too long to go into the fireplace, so one end was left lying on the floor while the other was burning. We had no axe. My belief is that the wood waß left burning, part being on the floor, and so the house caught fire. John Gibbs : The house was destroyed when I got to it. I saw the trunk of the body lying slightly tilted on one Bide. The shoulders were lying towards the middle of the house. I booked the ttunk out with a piece of edging. There was too much fire for me to go in, and got the whole of the remains out. Ail tbe extremities were burnt off. I helped to get up the bones and put them in the box where they now are with the trunk. A verdict was returned in accordance with the evidence.