Source: The Times
Date: 1875
Subject: Crown Court
John Baker is charged with the manslaughter of Lydia Lupton
on the 10th of October, under circumstances of an unusual character.....The
prisoner who is the surveyor of the Pudsey local board, ordered several
men to make a drain at Swain Green, Pudsey...The prisoner came to superintend
the work, and left at 5 o'clock in the evening having filled in the
drain, but leaving nine or ten loads of soil on the left-hand side of
the road. The coachman of Mr. Tankard, of Bowling Hall, was driving
Mrs. Lupton, Mr. Tankard's sister, home to Bradford Moor, along Swain
Lane, at 7 o'clock, when he ran into the heap of soil by the roadside,
upset the carriage and Mrs. Lupton was thrown upon her head on the curbstone.
She was severely injured and died 6 days afterwards. It appeared that
there were no lights to the carriage, and that it was been driven at
a rate of eight or nine miles an hour. No lights or fence had been ordered
to be put up by the prisoner....The jury found the prisoner guilty...fined
£25.
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