Arnold Sanders

Inquest, 17th August 1899

 

SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. Coroner Parker held an inquest on Thursday at the Temperance Institute on Arnold Sanders, six years old and nine months, who died somewhat suddenly on Wednesday morning.

—Dr. Gibbon said he was called to deceased about 10.55 on Wednesday morning. From a post mortem he found the stomach greatly disturbed, and the small intestines had passed through an abnormal opening, causing strangulation.

—The father, Robert Marlow Sanders, Rushden-road, Desborough, said deceased was taken ill about 2 a.m. on Wednesday. He vomited and had pains in his bowels. Witness made him some tea, got him downstairs, and afterwards the lad went to sleep again.

Clara Sanders, deceased's stepmother, deposed to attending the lad. About 9.30 the deceased got into bed, and ten minutes later witness found him unconscious, and he died in a few minutes.

—Verdict: "Natural causes."

 

 Northampton Mercury, Friday 18 August 1899