Accidental Shooting

[ed5344]

Hi Tempogold,    Good news and bad news I'm afraid.  Teesside Archives don't
have any pre 1950 inquest reports.  Northallerton only have a few but not for
central Middlesbrough. As yet I am still looking through the old newspapers,
maybe the inquest was published some time later.
Now the good news  1939 Electoral Roll for Middlesbrough  Grove Hill ward.
40 Croydon Road.   Cussons. John Henry.  John Victor.  Mary.  TAYLOR. MERLE.
By 1945 a different family occupy this address. 

Eddie.

[tempogold]

Very many thanks for all your help. What a pity the inquest report no longer exists. The Cusson family always blamed my Grandfather for his wife's death and it would be good to know what happened.

Thanks again

[julieriddiough]

Hello,

I had a similar unusual Middlesbrough death. All my attempts to find the inquest failed- the archives who have most of them isn't Teesside it's the North Riding one in Northallerton or at least that's what I was told but they said most inquests were filled out on scraps of paper which were not kept.

However I found a full report of the inquest including quotes from family members in the 'Evening Gazette' from the time, certainly both Middlesbrough and Stockton Reference Libraries have these on microfilm. I just started looking through a few issues from the date of death and found it really quickly, it was a whole column of text giving a lot of details and cost me something like 20p to print out at the library. I have heard that the paper reported most if not all inquests.



Good luck,

Dan

I had something similar and I went to the North Riding Archives and found the inquest there. Even some rather gruesome pics attached  to it