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Old 15-03-2014, 05:38 PM
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Burial Chevington Churchyard. William John Hillier Selfe of Togston Terrace, buried 27 January 1906, aged 62.

Morpeth Herald 3 February:-
"On Saturday last Mr Charles Percy held an inquest on the body of WIlliam John Hilliard Selfe, who had died the previous day, having sustained injuries through a fall of stone......Thomas Hetherington said he was a putter at Broomhill Colliery. He worked with the deceased and on 13 October he was putting off for the deceased. When witness went into the face where he worked he found him sitting on his cracket with a large stone on the top of his shoulder and back which had fallen on him. It had fallen from the roof. He got assistance and got him out.....
Dr Moyes got him home and examined him and found he was suffering from a spinal injury....He attended him until October 26 and then got him to the Newcastle Royal Infirmary. He came back on the 10 November. Death was due from the fracture of the spine and subsequent complications, the result of the accident."
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