Pierce Horton 1811 1832
Kentish Chronicle 23-8-1808 & Kentish Gazette
26-8-1808
Inquest
Folkestone, August 22nd.
An inquest was held at the Packet Boat, this day, before Thomas Baker, esq.
Mayor and Coroner, on the body of a young man, named Henry Jordan, servant of
Capt. Thomas, of Sandgate, who died last night, of the hurt he received by a
gig running over him on Saturday evening. It appeared in evidence, that as Mr.
Cavena, of the Royal Staff Corps, and Mr. Turner, of the 95th Rifle
Regiment, were returning from Dover, in a gig, the horse took fright in
descending the Folkestone hill, and set off at full speed, throwing the
gentlemen out; the animal continued to gallop furiously down Dover Street, and
getting entangled with the panniers of an ass (in one of which sat a young
child), they were thrown with great violence in different directions, and the
child, though much hurt on the head by the fall, was not dangerously wounded.
Immediately after, the vehicle coming in contact with a little boy on a pony,
in the care of the above-mentioned Henry Jordan, who, with the utmost presence
of mind extended his body to throw the child off the pony, on the opposite
side, received a most violent contusion in the chest and abdomen by the horse
and chaise passing over his body. He was taken to the Packet Boat, and
languished in great agony till eight
o'clock yesterday evening. Verdict – Accidental Death.
Note: This gives an
earlier date for this house.