The Preston Guardian Saturday October 2 1847
Death From Fright On Wednesday evening week, about 8 o'clock, a youth named George Thompson, residing at Win Hill, about sixteen years of age, was amusing himself along with some companions, near the archway, under the East Lancashire Railway, leading to Whittle Field, near the Barracks, Burnley. During the conversation among the boys, one of them said "Billy, give me some haws to take home for my mother," and just at the time some person near them called out "Aye, Billy, I want thee." The boys knowing that persons were forbidden to trespass on the line, immediately ran off, and Thompson fell after he had gone about twenty yards. Finding no one pursuing they returned, and on coming to where Thompson fallen found him quite dead. An inquest was held on the body at the Plane Tree Inn yesterday week. Verdict, "Died by the visitation of God." On Saturday last, Stephen White, Esq., surgeon, Burnley, made a post mortem examination of the body, and found that considerable debility existed about the heart, which no doubt rendered it unable to sustain any sudden emotion of fear.
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