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| Date transcribed | 2017-07-26 | | Transcribed by | Ainslie and Roley Sharpe | | Comment | Asiatic Annual Register 1803
Births, Marriages & Deaths transcribed from the Asiatic Annual Register for 1803, Vol. 5. Covering the period May 1802 to May 1803.
Events are listed by month reported; some took place the previous month |
 | Surname | Bradley | | | First name | Charles | | | Title | Mr | | | Year | 1802 | | | Month | December | | | Location | Hourah  | | | Volume | 11 | | | Page No | 157/158 | | | Full Text | At Hourah, Mr, Charles Bradley, aged 18 years. The death of this gentleman having occasioned a variety of reports relative to the melancholy event, we embrace this early opportunity of laying a correct statement of the affair before the public. Mr B. together with three of his friends dined with the master of the orphan school at Hourah on Friday. The room in which they dined was the upper story of one of the towers of the school house. All the glass windows, except one, and the door also, were closed. Immediately after dinner (about nine oclock) Mr. B. rose from his chair, and was seen by a gentleman present, who supposed the open window led to the main terrace of the buildings, to step over the low railing of that window. No other person observed this circumstance. About two minutes after some one asked, where is Mr. Bradley? and on observing that the door was still shut, the master of the house was instantly seized with the most dreadful apprehensions. Those were soon realized; for, descending with the utmost haste into the area below, the mangled body of his friend was found a breathless corpse! His neck and right arm were broken. Not a pulsation of the heart was perceptible. He, who five minutes before was in perfect health, engaged in interesting conversation respecting a projected mercantile speculation, who was beloved and respected for his virtues and talents now lay extended on the ground, deprived of sense, of motion, and of life! From a knowledge of Mr. B.'s percuniary circumstances, of his strength of mind and correct manner of thinking, from hearing him talk, and seeing the composure and unaltered ease of his behavior, even to the time when he rose from his chair, the writer of this article is convinced that the manner of his death was purely accidental, and that he only disigned to go out upon the terrace of the house, when he took the fatal step and was precipitated into eternity. |
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