From the account of an inquest held at St. George's
Hospital last night, we learn that Mr. Charles Harman, a solicitor retired from prac- tice, has lost his life from a fractured leg, caused by so simple an acci- dent as a fall in walking on a slippery pavement, one of the late frosty evenings. The accident occurred on the 7th, and Mr. Harman died at the Hospital on the 14th instant.
Last Saturday afternoon, a man named James Haworth, forty-three years of age, and a woman named Alice Holden, fifty-one years of age, perished from exposure to the snow-storm which occurred on that day. Haworth had been to Blackburn for work, and was carrying a warp and weft home with hint on his back, when it is supposed he lost the foot- path. On Sunday, as he had not arrived at home, a search was made for him ; and he was found quite dead, partially buried in a snow-drift about two hundred yards from his own door, and about thirty yards out of his road: The woman Holden was found nearly covered with snow about a quarter of a mile from home. Inquests were holden on the bodies ; and in both cases verdicts were returned to the effect that death had resulted from exposure to the inclemency of the weather.—Black- burn Standard.
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