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The Western Gazette Friday 06 Jul 1866
Page 7 Column 4
NORTH PETHERTON.
SHOCKING DEATH AT A MILL. - Intelligence reached us on Saturday morning last of the shocking death of a man at North Petherton. His name is Richard ASH, a carpenter, who was employed at the iron foundry at Bridgwater, and he was about fifty years of age. He had been with a party of friends at the Swan Inn, on Friday, and there is, we regret to say, good ground for believing he was rather the worse for liquor. He had occasion, in going to his home, to pass by a flour mill belonging to Mr. TUCKER, at North Petherton, and it is supposed that he must have made a mistake in the spot, having gone over there for a necessary purpose, and by some means have fallen over and got entangled in the machinery. About the time the deceased passed by the grinding in the mill was temporarily stopped, but the cause was not known. Deceased was missed, and his body, or rather portions of it, was found smashed and mangled; in fact, part of a wall had to be pulled down in order to secure the whole of the body. This shocking occurrence seems the more saddening when it is remembered that he had left a widow and three or four (now fatherless) children.