HANGED BY ACCIDENT
A STRANGE CASE. A curious story of how a boy was accidentally hanged whilst endeavoring to lijind himself in the way depicted in the drawing, "The Christian Martyr," was told recently at a West Ham (London) ! inquest. I The lad, who was 14 years old, was named Charles William Partridge, and lived w it'll his foster iparonts at Colegrave road, Stratford. His foster-mother, Emma Gillis, told the jury that he was connected with the Church Lads' Brigade, and on Thursday evening got is uniform out ready for the Good Friday parade. She and her husband went out, leaving him sketching. Asked what the was sketching, the woman Te,plied, "The Christian Martyr." "I ave got it here," she said, and she handed it to the -coroner. It was executed in blue crayon, and portrayed a young girl, bound with ropes to a stake in the river, and with a dagger driven through her •heart.
The foster-mother added that when she returned with her husband she found the lad 'hanging on the bedroom door. A andkerchief was tied tightly round his neck, and slipped under it was a rope, fastened over the door to the bedpost,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 65, 25 June 1910, Page 8
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197HANGED BY ACCIDENT Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 65, 25 June 1910, Page 8
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