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Tuesday 4 October 1938 - Mrs Emily Jane Field killed

Category Wickhamford
Publication
The Gloucestershire Echo
Transcription of article

FATAL CRASH ON “DIFFICULT BEND”

MOTORIST COMMITTED ON MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE AT EVESHAM

The sequel to a fatal accident at Wickhamford, near Evesham, on Spt. 19, was heard at Evesham County Petty Sessions yesterday, when a charge of manslaughter was brought against Pheneas Mory Horn (22), a fruit grower, of North End, Exning, near Newmarket.

Horn, against whom a verdict of manslaughter was brought at the inquest on Mrs. Emily Jane Field (63), of Wickhamford, who was killed in the Accident, had been committed for trial on a coroner’s warrant.

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A fuller version of this event is to be found in the article entitled ‘Wickhamford Tragedies’.