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- Witness at Inquest, 13 Aug 1910
Hartland and West Country Chronicle, Saturday 13 August 1910
HARTLAND - A body was found under Elmscott cliffs about noon on Monday, August 8th, by Ambrose Newton and Frederick Walter, two schoolboys. On reporting it to P.C. Cole, he at once took out the new stretcher in a pony trap. An inquest was held on Tuesday August 9, in the house of Mr Fred Pennington. The Coroner (Mr G. W. F. Brown) first called Ambrose Newton (13), who stated he went to the cliffs from Elsmcott school with Frederick Walter (12) yesterday and found the body, which had no head. MARY SUSANNA MUGFORD, of Welcombe, said her brother, JOSEPH RICHARD MUGFORD, disappeared on the 6th of May last. He took out the cows as usual at 10 in the morning, and took no bag nor left any message. He was 44 years of age, and 5 feet 7 ½ inches or 8 inches in height... The Jury retired for a few minutes to consider and Mr T. Braund (Foreman), returned with a verdict that the body was that of JOSEPH MUGFORD, late of Mead (Welcombe), who was found under Elmscott Cliffs. The two boys, Newton and Walter, left the Court with £5 each which MISS M. S. MUGFORD had brought for the purpose of paying the offered £10 reward for the recovery of her brother's body, in addition to the 5/- to which they were entitled from the County.
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