Death, 1843
AN AFFECTING DEATH.—On Saturday last, a man named Charles Allen,
shoemaker, of Desborough, left his home for Northampton, in search of
work, intending, it appears, to return by a carrier. He succeeded in
getting work, and not being ready when the carrier started, he
afterwards proceeded homewards on foot. At about one o'clock on Sunday
morning he applied for lodging at a lone house on the road known by the
name
of Fox-hall. But the hour being unseasonable, and the inmates of the
house having retired to rest, the landlord refused him admission. After
that some person or persons were heard to be outside the house, but of
this no notice was taken till between seven and eight the next morning,
when the poor man was found dead a few yards from the house. The body
was examined, but no marks of violence were discoverable, and the
medical gentleman in attendance was of opinion that the man had died
from exhaustion. The leather he brought from Northampton was found
secreted at the distance of about a quarter of a mile from where he
died; by which it would appear that he felt so fatigued as to be unable
to carry it farther. He bore the character of a steady and industrious
man, was about 40 years old, and unmarried. He had but recently
recovered from a fever.
Northampton Mercury, Saturday 25
February 1843