Death in 1908

[SmallTownGirl]

I've just found a burial record for at 13yo boy in 1908, that says "accidentally strangled" and see that there was an inquest held on 14 Dec 1908.  I wondered if there were any online newspapers from that time that I could access to see if there was a report of what exactly happened.

Does anyone know of such a link, please?

Thanks
STG

[Gillian Mauchan]

I havent found a resource for on-line South African papers. The National Library of South Africa has a vast collection of papers on Microfilm , you would need to go into the Library to view them or engage a researcher to do so on your behalf. You can order printouts tkes a week for a nominal fee.

[maddys52]

eggsa has a (very) few transcriptions of some SA newspapers. I have been lucky to find some mentions of a person I was researching.
https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/

[maddys52]

Gale Primary Sources (available through many libraries - I access from home using my Australian National Library Card)  has digitised "Sam Sly's African Journal", a weekly publication from Cape Town, from 1843-1851. Also the South African Nursing Journal - 1947-1978. A few other South African publications too with various coverages - Cape Monthly Magazine; Cape Illustrated Magazine etc. Not much use in your search for 1908, however, again, I have found it very useful in other research.

[SmallTownGirl]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, but I've not had any luck finding any further info about how this little boy came to accidentally hang himself

STG

[pampoen]

You can try looking through these newspaper collections https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/search-newspapers

[SmallTownGirl]

You can try looking through these newspaper collections https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/search-newspapers

No luck there either, I'm afraid.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

STG